SOLUTION: Hi there were 3/4 as many sweets in box a as in box b.1/2 of the sweetsin box a and 3/8 of the sweets in box b were removed. There were then 152 sweets left in both boxes altogeth

Question 1046149: Hi
there were 3/4 as many sweets in box a as in box b.1/2 of the sweetsin box a and 3/8 of the sweets in box b were removed. There were then 152 sweets left in both boxes altogether. How many sweet s were there in each box at first.

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Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Mul;tiply both sides by
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Plug (1) into (2)
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and
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Box a had 114 and box b had 152 sweets
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check:
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OK

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