Bobby’s christmas list had 3 more than twice as many items on it than johnny’s list. johnny asked for 8 fewer items than bobby. how many items were on johnny’s (x) and bobby’s (y) christmas lists?

Johnny had 5 items and Bobby had 13 items.

Step-by-step explanation:

Let us assume that Johnny has x items and Bobby has y items in their list.

Bobby had 3 more than twice as many items on it than Johnny. So,

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Johnny asked for 8 fewer items than bobby. So,

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Putting the value of x from equation 2 in equation 1, we get

Putting the value of y in equation 2,

So, Johnny had 5 items and Bobby had 13 items.