SOLUTION: At a scrapbooking party, guests brought a certain number of photographs to use based on how many pages they will be assembling. Sharon plans to assemble three small pages and seven

Question 1116657: At a scrapbooking party, guests brought a certain number of photographs to use based on how many pages they will be assembling. Sharon plans to assemble three small pages and seven large pages and brought a total of 26 photographs to use. Whitney brought 16 photographs which is enough to assemble three small pages and two large pages assuming that the number of photographs on a page remains constant how many photographs fit on a small page and a large page?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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guests brought a certain number of photographs to use based on how many pages they will be assembling.
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Sharon plans to assemble three small pages and seven large pages and brought a total of 26 photographs to use.
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Whitney brought 16 photographs which is enough to assemble three small pages and two large pages
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...assuming that the number of photographs on a page remains constant how many photographs fit on a small page and a large page?
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That changes the description.

What you really want to do is this:
Try making x and y, ratio of photos to pages for small page (x) and for large page (y). With this "assumption" and variables, form a system

You can eliminate the 3x to first find y; and use this y value to find x.
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------photographs on a large page

-------photographs on a small page

Those seem the reverse of what would be expected. Fewer on large page than on small page.
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