2021 AMC 10A Problems/Problem 2
Problem 2
Portia's high school has times as many students as Lara's high school. The two high schools have a total of
students. How many students does Portia's high school have?
Solution
The following system of equations can be formed with representing the number of students in Portia's high school and
representing the number of students in Lara's high school.
Substituting
with
we get
. Solving for
, we get
. Since we need to find
we multiply
by 3 to get
, which is
-happykeeper