During a recent season, Miguel Cabrera and Mike Jacobs of the Florida Marlins hit a combined total of home runs.

Cabrera hit more home runs than Jacobs.

write an equation.

Let, is a number of home runs Jacobs hit.

is a number of home runs Cabrera hit.

Total of the home runs Jacobs hits and Cabrera hits is ,

Find howmany home runs did each player hit.

                              (Original equation)

                  (Subtract from each side)

                                    (Apply additive inverse property: )

                              (Divide each side by )

                                      (Cancel common terms)

Hence, Jacobs are home runs.

                               (Substitute )

Therefore, cabrera is home runs.

Jacobs are home runs, Cabrera is home runs.