SOLUTION: 1. A man sold x similar books for $132. if he had sold (x-1) books but charges $1 more for each book he would have received then same amount of money find the value of x.

Question 388650: 1. A man sold x similar books for $132. if he had sold (x-1) books but charges $1 more for each book he would have received then same amount of money find the value of x.
Answer by richard1234(7193) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let be the price of each book. We have

Expanding the left hand side,

(take the positive value)
RELATED QUESTIONS
1.a man sold x similar books for $132. if he had sold (x-1) books but charges $1 more for (answered by robertb)

A man sold x number of books for $132, and then he sold (x-1) books for $132 but he... (answered by richwmiller)

The total proceeds from a used book store sale were $250. A total of 91 books were sold.... (answered by stanbon)

Hi Bob was given some books. He sold all the books. Each book was sold at $ 8.90. For... (answered by josgarithmetic)

a book dealer received an order in which 1/5 of the books were hardcover books. the... (answered by moshiz08)

A man sold an almirah at a profit of 7 1/2% had he sold it for Rs.209, he would have lost (answered by dkppathak)

Norbert sold 23 books on Thursday for a curtain price. On Friday, ha sold 35 of the same... (answered by elima)

Hi A man bought a number of books for $300.if each book cost 5 dollars more he could buy (answered by ikleyn)

Jose sold 1/3 of his books and then bought 16 more. Now he has 36 books. How many books... (answered by faceoff57,ikleyn,MathTherapy)