Problema Solution
Your high school is having a competition where students have to guess how many candy canes are in a jar. The tens digit is 4 more than twice the ones digit. The sum of the digits is 4. How many candy canes are in the jar? Find the tens digit (x) and the ones digit (y).
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x = tens digit
y = ones digit
x = 4 + 2y
x + y = 4
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x = 4
y = 0
10x + y = 10*4 + 0 = 40
There are 40 candies in the jar.
The tens digit is 4, while the ones digit is 0.