SOLUTION: alex had 2.5 times as many books as i do you could also say she has 27 more books than i do. how many do i have?
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Question 322762: alex had 2.5 times as many books as i do you could also say she has 27 more books than i do. how many do i have?
thankyou
Answer by solver91311(24713) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let 
represent the number of books that you have. Then 
represents the number of books that Alex has. Also, 
represents the number of books that Alex has.
Since the number of books that Alex has is equal to the number of books that Alex has, we can say:
Just solve for .
By the way, don't you have a 'Shift' key on your keyboard? Lack of capitalization and missing punctuation made your submission very difficult to read. Please have more consideration for those of us who are trying to help you.
John
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