Rich and Aylen are saving money to buy baseball tickets. Rich has $5 more than 3 times the amount of money Aylen has. Together, they have $101. Write an equation to determine how much money Rich and Aylen have together.

Question

3x + 5 = 101
x + 3x − 5 = 101
x + 3x + 5 = 101
x − 3x − 5 = 101

Answer 1

Let x represent the amount of money Aylen has.

Rich has $5 more than 3 times the amount Aylen has, so Rich has 3x + 5.

Together, they have $101, so the equation is:
x + 3x + 5 = 101