The number of counties in state a and the number of counties in state b are consecutive integers whose sum is 142. if state a has more counties than b, how many counties does each state have?

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The number of counties in state A and the number of counties in state b are consecutive integers whose sum is 142.

And It is given that state A have more counties than state B .

Let State B have n counties. And since counties in state A and B are consecutive integers, so state A have

And total counties are 142. That is

So state B have 70.5 counties and state A have 71.5 counties .

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ok so im not 100% sure but you would start by adding 5.1t and 1.9t beacuse they have the same variable. that is 7t.   then add -3.6 + 1.2 which is -2.4

so then keep that as -2.4 + 7t. i apologize if this is incorrect. best luck on your test < 3