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8 March, 16:27

During last week's visit to this same pear tree, pete ate 3 times as many pears as tweet, and tweet ate 5 fewer pears than honk. if together the boys ate 25 pears, how many pears did honk eat during last week's visit?

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  1. 8 March, 16:47
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    If Tweet ate x pears, then Pete ate 3x pears and Honk ate x+5 pears.

    That's a total of 5x+5 pears

    5x+5 = 25

    5x = 20

    x = 4

    But remember, we need to find the number of pears that Honk ate!

    X+5 = 4+5 = 9 pears!
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