colleen's family plans to paint the windows of their house. her father will paint twice as many windows as her mother, and Colleen and her 2 brothers will paint an equal number of the rest of the windows. Colleen decided to do her own share and her mother's share and paints 7 window, which is one less than her father's share. how many windows are in their house?

Her dad painted 7+1 (8) windows, and that is twice as much as what her mother was supposed to do. Her mother was supposed to do 4 windows. That means Colleen's share was 3 windows.

If all the kids had to do an equal amount of windows, than each kid had to do 3 windows.

8+7+3+3+3=24

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pukhrajvt pukhrajvt · Answer 2 · 2022-08-18T11:45:26+02:00

The total windows in the house are 21.

What is an algebraic expression?

It is an expression contains a relation between different parameters (variables). It contains variable and constant values, along with algebraic operations.

In our given problem, the algebraic relation between different members work output and total windows can be expressed as:

Windows painted by colleen and her mother = 7

Windows painted by father = (Windows painted by colleen and her mother + 1)

= (7 + 1) = 8

∴ Windows painted by father = 8

Now, as given,

2 Windows painted by mother = Windows painted by father

∴ Windows painted by mother = [tex]\frac{8}{2}[/tex] = 4

and Windows painted by colleen = 7 - 4 = 3

Colleen and her 2 brothers paint equal windows;

∴ They painted 3 windows each.

The total windows in the house is equal to total painted windows by mother, father, colleen and her two brothers:

⇒ 4 + 8 + 3 x 3 = 12 + 9 = 21

Hence the total windows in the house are 21.

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