At a pizza eating competition, davonne ate two more than twice as mant slices as the runner-up. if davonne ate 11 slices, then how many slices did the runner-up eat

Let be the number of slices eaten by Davonne, and be the number of slices eaten by the runner-up.

The sentece "Davonne ate two more than twice as many slices as the runner-up" translates as

In fact, is twice as much as the runner-up ate, and the final "+2" represents the "two more than.." part.

Since we know hoy many slices Davonne ate, let's plug that value and solve for :

So, the runner-up ate 4.5 slices.

the sum of the lengths of any two sides of a triangle is greater than the length of the third side. if you take the three sides of a triangle and add them in pairs, the sum is greater than (not equal to) the third side. if that is not true, then it is not possible to construct a triangle with the given side lengths.

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