SOLUTION: In 1993, the number of Americans dying from cancer was 6 times the number that died from accidents. If the number of deaths from these two causes totaled 630,000 how many americans

SOLUTION: In 1993, the number of Americans dying from cancer was 6 times the number that died from accidents. If the number of deaths from these two causes totaled 630,000 how many americans

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Question 224580: In 1993, the number of Americans dying from cancer was 6 times the number that died from accidents. If the number of deaths from these two causes totaled 630,000 how many americans died from each cause?
Answer by checkley77(12844) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
X+6X=630,000
7X=630,000
X=630,000/7
X=90,000 DIED IN ACCIDENTS.
6*90,000=540,000 DIED OF CANCER.
PROOF:
90,000+540,000=630,000
630,000=630,000
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