Question

Sachin scored twice as many runs as Rahul. Together, their runs fell two short of a double century. How many runs did each one score ?

Answer 1

Let the Rahul scored $x$ runs

Given that Sachin scored twice as many runs as Rahul.

Therefore, The runs scored by Sachin is $2x$

Given that Their total runs fell two short of double century.

Therefore, $x+2x=200-2$

$⟹3x=198$

$⟹x=66$

Therefore, the runs scored by Rahul is $66$ and

the runs scored by Sachin is $2\times 66=132$