In lewis carroll’s through the looking glass, tweedledum says, "the sum of your weight and twice mine is 361 pounds." tweedledee replies, "the sum of your weight and twice mine is 362 pounds." find both of their weights.

Tweedledum weights 120 pounds and Tweedledee 121 pounds.

Step-by-step explanation:

If we say that is the weight of Tweedledum and is the weight of Tweedledee, according to what they say we can write the equations:

We can solve this easily by substitution for example.

From the first equation we can write:

And substitute in the second equation:

Which means:

Which results in

And we return to the first equation to have:

ruth is 6 years old

step-by-step explanation:

6 + 24 = 30,   so 6/30 = .2  

if you do 1/5 it also equals .2, so that is the answer.