Together Jason and Judy have read 24 mystery novels. Judy has read less than three times as many as Jason. How many mystery novels have each of them read.

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Omitted / Incomplete Question : Judy has read 4 Less than three times as many as Jason

Answer:Jason has read  7 mystery novels and Judy has read  17 mystery novels

Step-by-step explanation:

Total number of mystery books read by  Jason and Judy =24

Let Number of mystery books read by Jason=x

and  Number of mystery books read by Judy= 3x-4

So that the total number of book read by both of them will be expressed as

x +(3x-4) =24

x +3x-4 =24

4x=24+4

4x=28

x=28/4=7

There fore  Jason has read  7 mystery novels

and Judy = 3x-4 = 3 X 7- 4 =21-4=17mystery novels