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after geting 5 new rocks geogre gave half of his collection to susan.if george gave susan 36 rocks which equation could be used to determine hiw many rocks george started with

Respuesta :

36×2=72
72-5=67
George started with 67 rocks.
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x - number of rocks with which George started

The equation:

[tex]\dfrac{x+5}{2}=36\ \ \ |\cdot2\\\\x+5=72\ \ \ |-5\\\\x=67[/tex]

Answer: 67