SOLUTION: A textbook store sold a combined total of 267 sociology textbooks in a week. The number of sociology textbooks sold was two times the number of physics textbooks sold. How many tex

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Question 1074273: A textbook store sold a combined total of 267 sociology textbooks in a week. The number of sociology textbooks sold was two times the number of physics textbooks sold. How many textbooks of EACH type were sold?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
, because , SOLD... 267 SOCIOLOGY TEXTBOOKS. The description plainly gives the quantity of Sociology textbooks sold. No variable needed for how many Sociology textbooks.


(Only whole number of books can be sold.)



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If the question were:
A textbook store sold a combined total of 267 sociology AND PHYSICS textbooks in a week. The number of sociology textbooks sold was two times the number of physics textbooks sold.

... then s for how many Sociology, p for how many of Physics;







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