Elena has 60 colored pencils, and lucy has 26 colored pencils. howmany pencils must elena give to lucy so that elena will have 4 more colored pencils than lucy?

 15

Step-by-step explanation:

Given : Elena has 60 colored pencils, and Lucy has 26 colored pencils.

Total colored pencils =

Let 'x' denotes the number of pencils Lucy has when she get pencils from Elena , and Elena left with 'y' pencils.

Then, by considering the given information we have the following system :-

We can rewritten the equation (2) as

Now, add equation (1) and (2), we get

Put the value of y in (2), we get

It means, the number of pencils Lucy has now =41

The number of pencils Elena give to Lucy=

Hence, Elena must give 15 pencils to lucy so that elena will have 4 more colored pencils than Lucy.

the answer is 37

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