SOLUTION: a man started selling magazine subscriptions he sold twice as many each day over the day before after five days he sold a total of ninety three magazine subscriptions. What is tota
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Question 360021: a man started selling magazine subscriptions he sold twice as many each day over the day before after five days he sold a total of ninety three magazine subscriptions. What is total magazine subscriptions for the third day?
Answer by robertb(5830) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let x = # subscriptions in the first day. Then
.
,
. Therefore there were subscriptions on the 3rd day.
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