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in one baseball season, peter hit twice the difference of the number of home runs alice hit and 3. altogether, they hit 9 home runs. how many home runs did each player hit that season? let h represent alice's home runs.

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Answer:

  • Alice 5
  • Peter 4

Step-by-step explanation:

We're told to use h for Alice's homers. Then Peter's homers were ...

  2(h -3) . . . . twice the difference of Alice's and 3

Then the total is ...

  9 = h + 2(h -3) = 3h -6

  15 = 3h

  5 = h

Alice hit 5 homers; Peter hit 4.

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