SOLUTION: Both Sorang and Tom have an international stamp collection. Sorang has 370 stamps, which is twenty less than three times the number of stamps that are in Tom�s collection. How

Question 259967: Both Sorang and Tom have an international stamp collection. Sorang has 370
stamps, which is twenty less than three times the number of stamps that are in
Tom�s collection. How many total stamps are in Tom�s international stamp collection?

Answer by mananth(16946) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let tom have x stamps.
Sorang has 370. this is less than 3 times tom's collection by 20
Threfore, 3x-20=370
solving the equation
3x= 370+20=390
x=390/3
x= 130.
Tom has 130 stamps.
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