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3. Ruby and Sapphire love strawberries. Ruby starts out with 10 strawberries and finds 3 more every minute. Sapphire starts out with 3
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3. Ruby and Sapphire love strawberries. Ruby starts out with 10 strawberries and finds 3 more
every minute. Sapphire starts out with 30 strawberries and eats 2 every minute. How long will it
take for them to have the same number of strawberries?
PLEASE HELP ME. AND SHOW YOUR WORK. PLEASE IM DYING.
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Answer:
4 minutes
Step-by-step explanation:
Let the time taken for them to have the same number of strawberries be x minutes.
Initially
Ruby: 10 strawberries
Sapphire: 30 strawberries
After x minutes
Ruby: (10 +3x) strawberries
Sapphire: (30 -2x) strawberries
Since we let x minutes be the amount of time that has passed when they have the same amount of strawberries,
10 +3x= 30 -2x
Bring all x terms to one side, constant to the other:
3x +2x= 30 -10
Simplify:
5x= 20
Divide both sides by 5:
x= 20 ÷5
x= 4
∴ It will take 4 minutes.