SOLUTION: Cycly Paths, Inc. makes bicycles, tricycles, and unicycles. Last week they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles, and 5 times as many tricycles as unicycles. If they made 40 more

Question 56996: Cycly Paths, Inc. makes bicycles, tricycles, and unicycles. Last week they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles, and 5 times as many tricycles as unicycles. If they made 40 more bicycles than tricycles, how many unicycles did they make?
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Cycly Paths, Inc. makes bicycles, tricycles, and unicycles. Last week they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles, and 5 times as many tricycles as unicycles. If they made 40 more bicycles than tricycles, how many unicycles did they make?
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Let number of unicycles be "x"
Then number of bicycles is "x+88"
Number of tricycles is "5x"
EQUATION:
# bicycles = # tricycles + 40
x+88 = 5x + 40
4x=48
x=12 (this is the number of unicycles)
cheers,
Stan H.
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