SOLUTION: In a certain office, 240 reams of bond paper were to be used in printing to be divided equally among a certain number of divisions. If there had been four divisions more, each woul

Question 943507: In a certain office, 240 reams of bond paper were to be used in printing to be divided equally among a certain number of divisions. If there had been four divisions more, each would have received 4/5 as many. How many divisions are there? ( answer is 16 - show your solution )
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the number of divisions

There are 16 divisions
check:

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