Matt has 6 more baseball cards than ramon together, they have 450 cards. how manyvcards does each boy have? write an equation and solve it?

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Lauren Hawkins

Mathematics

12 November, 00:26

Matt has 6 more baseball cards than ramon together, they have 450 cards. how manyvcards does each boy have? write an equation and solve it?

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Lena Yang · Answer 1

Let ramon's card be k

6 more than ramon=6+k

6+k+k=450

6+2k=450

2k+6-6=450-6

2k=444

2k/2=444/2

k=222

Therefore ramon has 222 cards and Matt has (222+6) 228 cards.