Greg and Cleo are playing a game and they each have a certain number of chips. Greg starts with twice as many chips as Cleo. After he gives her 8 chips, he still has 9 more than Cleo. How many chips did Greg have before he gave the 8 chips to Cleo? A) 18
B) 34
C) 48
D) 50

The correct answer is D, but how do you get it?

50

Step-by-step explanation:

I toke me a lot of time to figure out why am I getting always 34 and still it isn't working : 34-8 = 26 and 26-25=1 wich is false

now I'll show you how

Greg gives Cleo 8 chips but still he has 9 more chips than Cleo :

I guess now that we we are smelling that 50

we get -x+2y=0 and all we should do now is to add it to the second equation to make a normal one with one unkhown value y

finaaly the aswer is 50

the trick is to try to imaginate the situation

answer

the correct answer is

explanation

the given function is

the excluded values are obtained by solving:

we factor to obtain:

the excluded values are

42

step-by-step explanation: