SOLUTION: Hi a farmer sold some eggs in the morning. He then packed the remaining eggs into 15 cartons with 25 eggs each.if the number he sold was 3/5 of the number of eggs he packed, how m

Question 1097499: Hi
a farmer sold some eggs in the morning. He then packed the remaining eggs into 15 cartons with 25 eggs each.if the number he sold was 3/5 of the number of eggs he packed, how many eggs did he have initially.
My solution was 625 eggs textbook 600 eggs. Who is correct?
Thanks
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = number of eggs he had initially

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Initially he had egss

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