SOLUTION: samuel has 24 less CD's than jacob. if jacob gave away 4 CD's, Jacob would have 1 1/2 times as many CD's as samuel. how many CD's do samuel and jacob have together?

Question 992568: samuel has 24 less CD's than jacob. if jacob gave away 4 CD's, Jacob would have 1 1/2 times as many CD's as samuel. how many CD's do samuel and jacob have together?
Answer by vleith(2983) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let J be the number of CDs jacob owns.
You are told sam has J-24.
You are also told that

jacob owns 64 CDs. sam owns 64-24 = 40
together they own 104 CDs

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