SOLUTION: On August 7, the abbott family recieved 31 pieces of may, consisting of magazines, bills, letters, and ads. If they recieved the same number of magazines as letters, three more bil
Algebra.Com
Question 1164101: On August 7, the abbott family recieved 31 pieces of may, consisting of magazines, bills, letters, and ads. If they recieved the same number of magazines as letters, three more bills than letters, and five more ads than bills, how many magazines did they receive?
Answer by ikleyn(52818) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
.
On August 7, the Abbott family received 31 pieces of mail, consisting of
magazines, bills, letters, and ads. If they received the same number of
magazines as letters, three more bills than letters, and five more ads than
bills, how many magazines did they receive?
~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Word-in-word and number-in-number, this problem was solved at this forum long time ago under the link
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/word/misc/Miscellaneous_Word_Problems.faq.question.380345.html
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/word/misc/Miscellaneous_Word_Problems.faq.question.380345.html
In the link I referred to, the date was the " August, 4 ", which is, OBVIOUSLY, irrelevant . . .
RELATED QUESTIONS
On August 28, the Corwin family recieved 27 pieces of mail, consisting of magazines,... (answered by stanbon)
On August 4, the Abbott family received 19 pieces of mail, consisting of magazines,... (answered by Fombitz)
On August 22 , the Fernandez family received 35 pieces of mail, consisting of... (answered by greenestamps)
The Smith family recelved 19 pieces of mall on November 16. The mail consisted of... (answered by greenestamps)
the Brady family received
35 pieces of mail
they received the same number of ads as... (answered by ewatrrr)
Norman recieved his weekly salary in $100 and $50 bills. The number of $100 bills is 7... (answered by macston)
I'm sure i can figure this out if you can just tell me how to translate this into a... (answered by checkley77,katealdridge)
the salary of two workers is in the ratio 3:4 they recieved 12,250 how much did each... (answered by macston)
when Mr. Johnson died,his estate was divided according to his last will and testament.... (answered by solver91311)