Problema Solution
Seperate 43 people into two groups so that the first group has 5 less than 3 times the number of people in the second group.
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Let 'x' represent the number of people in the second group.
Then the number of people in the firs group can be written as: 3x - 5
x + (3x - 5) = 43
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x = 12 people
43 - 12 = 31 people
The first group has 31 and the second 12 people.