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Answer 1 · 2017-09-07T17:50:42

To solve this question, let us put it in a notation we are used to for an unknown "x".

So let us say that the miles driven on Saturday are #x# miles,

Therefore the miles driven on sunday can be written as #x-65# from the given text
"She drove 65 miles less on the Sunday than she did on Saturday"

Then, twice the miles driven on Sunday is 373 more than the number of miles driven on Saturday.

Therefore,
we write

#x-65#
instead of miles driven on Sunday,

and

#x#
instead of miles driven on Saturday

#2(x-65)=373+x#
#2x-130=373+x#

Now putting the unknown x on one side of the equation and the rest on the other side:

#2x-x=373+130#

Therefore
#x=503#