Question 216576: The shoe store has twice as many black shoes as it does brown shoes. The total number of shoes is 66. How many brown shoes are there?
Answer by drj(1380)   (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! The shoe store has twice as many black shoes as it does brown shoes. The total number of shoes is 66. How many brown shoes are there?.
Step 1. Let x be the number of brown shoes.
Step 2. Let 2x be the number of black shoes since there are twice as many black shoes as it does brown shoes
Step 3. Then x+2x=66 since the total of shoes is 66.
Step 4. Solving yields, 3x=66 or x=22 after dividing by 3 to both sides of equation.
Step 5. ANSWER: There are 22 brown shoes and 44 black shoes.
I hope the above steps were helpful.
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Dr J
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