Write an equation and solve. In the parking lot at a turck stop there were 6 more cars than 18 wheel trucks. There wer 134 wheels in the parking lot. How may cars and trucks were there?

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Tonika - Simply change the words to equations and everything seems to always work out First start by assigning meaningful variables.  Let cars = c and let trucks = t. The first sentence says "there were 6 more cars than 18 wheel trucks"  So write c = t +6, agree? Next, "There were 134 wheels in the parking lot".  So what to do with this?  Each car has 4 wheels and each truck has 18 wheels, right?  So, in equation form this is: 4c + 18t = 134 total wheels. Now just solve these two equations for c and t: c = t +6 4c + 18t = 134 I recommend the"substitution" method for solving these two equations, but you can use any method that you like most. Hope this helps