1) Five less than twice a number is equal to one more than the number. What is the number? 2) Find the number of Calories in a stalk of celery and in a carrot given the following information.
A carrot has 13 Calories more than a celery stalk.
Five carrots and ten celery stalks have only 170 Calories.

3) Roger spent $22 on a baseball mitt and a softball. If the mitt cost $2 less than 5 times the cost of the softball, find the cost of each.

4) Find the total weight of the boxes of pecans in a shipment of 3 lb boxes of pecans and 2 lb boxes of walnuts.
There were 24 fewer 2 lb boxes of walnuts than 3 lb boxes of pecans.
The total weight of the shipment was 462 lb.

You can use the following chart to help you get started.

Weight per box Numer of boxes Total Weight
Pecans
Walnuts