SOLUTION: Jay's favorite book is 182 pages less than 3 times Mitchel's favorite book. If both books have the same number of pages, how many pages are in Jay's favorite book?

Question 255432: Jay's favorite book is 182 pages less than 3 times Mitchel's favorite book. If both books have the same number of pages, how many pages are in Jay's favorite book?
Answer by EMStelley(208) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let's call the number of pages in Jay's book J and Mitchel's book M. Then the first sentence tells us that:

If both books have the same number of pages, then J = M. So let's replace the J with M in our equation:

Subtract 3M from both sides:

Divide by -2:

So Mitchel's book and Jay's book have 91 pages.
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