SOLUTION: On the first day of a textbok sale, 25% of the books were sold. If 18 textbooks were sold, how many were sold?
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: On the first day of a textbok sale, 25% of the books were sold. If 18 textbooks were sold, how many were sold?
This question is from textbook New Progress in Mathematics
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If 18 textbooks were sold, how many were sold?
18 were sold Huh?
I think the last sentence should be "How many books were for sale?"
Let = the number for sale
72 books were for sale
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