1. Mark is six years older than his brother Sam. The sum of their ages is 30. What a be Sam’s age. Set up and solve an equation using the information given to find the value of a.

2. Alonso and Mandy are selling raffle tickets at a school for a fundraiser. Alonso sells five tickets lesson three times what Mandy sells. Together they saw a total of 43 tickets. What N equals the number of tickets Mandy sells.
Use an equation to determine the number of tickets Alonso sells. Show how you arrived at your answer.

3. Elena, Karla, and Faye are playing a card game where they score points. Karla scores twice the number of points Elena does, and Faye scored 30 points more than Elena does. The sum of their three scores is 114. Who scores more points, Carla or Faye? Show how you found your answer. (Hint: what an equal the number of points Elena that scores.)