If the rate continues, in nine years there will be about 300 employees
So for Tom to get his free meal he needs to spend 50 dollars.
This means the following⬇️
This equation is the 50 dollars he has to spend minus the 30.25 he has already spent which results in⬇️
This results in Tom needing to still spend 19.75 more dollars to get his free meal!!
Hope this helped!!
In this equation x can be both 23 and -33 since the absolute value symbol will always make it positive.
So the possible numbers are multiples of 6 smaller than 24:
6
12
18
24 is not ok, since he won both kinds of trophies, so if he won 24 soccer trophies, he'd have no baseball trophies!
if he had 12 of one kind of trophies, he'd have 24-12=12 also 12 of the other trophies, and we know that he has more soccer trophies, so we reject this
so he has 6 and 18 trophies of one kind. Since he has more soccer trophies, this means that he has 18 soccer trophies and 6 baseball trophies!