Question

Plz help!!!

Sarah and Jake collect bottle caps. Sarah started with 25 bottle caps
and gave away X number of them. Jake started with 40 bottle caps and gave
away 2 times as many as Sarah gave away. If they now how the same number of
bottle caps, how many bottle caps do they now have?

Answer 1

10

Explanation:

use the variable x and replace it with a 15 and use the same equation, it is the only number that fits