SOLUTION: The ratio of sports cars to luxury cars sold in St. Louis last year was 3 to 2. If 20 more sports cars were sold than luxury cars, how many of each were sold?

Question 315143: The ratio of sports cars to luxury cars sold in St. Louis last year was 3 to 2. If 20 more sports cars were sold than luxury cars, how many of each were sold?
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let A be the number of luxury cars sold.
Then A+20 is the number of sports cars sold.
We know that,

40 luxury cars and 60 sports cars were sold.
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