During last week's visit to this same pear tree, pete ate 3 times as many pears as tweet, and tweet ate 5 fewer pears than honk. if together the boys ate 25 pears, how many pears did honk eat during last week's visit?
If Tweet ate x pears, then Pete ate 3x pears and Honk ate x+5 pears. That's a total of 5x+5 pears 5x+5 = 25 5x = 20 x = 4 But remember, we need to find the number of pears that Honk ate! X+5 = 4+5 = 9 pears!
