SOLUTION: Can you please help me solve this word problem Nora and Hana are tiling two floors in their house. By noon, Nora had laid 3/4 of her tiles. Hana had laid 1/2 of her tiles. Th

Question 952416: Can you please help me solve this word problem
Nora and Hana are tiling two floors in their house. By noon, Nora had laid 3/4 of her tiles. Hana had laid 1/2 of her tiles. They laid the same number of tiles. How many tiles might each person have started with?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of tiles Nora started with
Let = number of tiles Hana started with
given:

Multiply both sides by

Nora could have started with 200 and
Hana could have started with 300

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