Question

Four friends are collecting canned goods for charity Ron collects 10 more than 3 times as many cans as jasmine barry collects twice as many cans as jasmine Alicia collects 10 more cans than Barry how many cans does each person collect if jasmine and Ron collect the same number of cans as Alicia and Barry

Answer 1

jasmine + ron =alicia + barry
Ron collects 3jasmine+10 more than jasmine
barry collects 2 jamsine
alicia collects 10 barry = 20 jasmine
4jasmine+10=22 jasmine
10=18 jasmine
jasmine = 1.8
ron =15.4
alicia=32
barry=3.2