Kris and julio played a card game. together, they scored 36 points in one game. kris scored 2 times as many points as julio. how many points did kris and julio each score? write an equation and solve. explain your work.

For this case, the first thing we must do is define a variable.

We have then:

x: number of points scored by Julio.

The amount of points Kris scores is:

Then, together they scored 36 points:

From here, we clear the value of x:

Therefore, Julio scored 12 points.

For Kris we have:

Therefore, Kris scored 24 points.

Kris = 24 points

July = 12 points

The equation is: