Rob is a high school student taking both algebra and geometry. Last night he had 27 homework problems combined from the two classes, and he took a total of 90 minutes to do them. If each algebra problem took him 2 minutes and each geometry problem took him 5 minutes, how many algebra problems did he have for homework?
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15
Step-by-step explanation:
Let x represent the number of algebra problems. Then the number of geometry problems was 27-x and the total working time was ...
2x +5(27 -x) = 90
-3x = 90 -135 ... . subtract 135 X = -45/-3 = 15 ... divide by -3
Rob had 15 algebra problems for homework.
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