document.write( "Question 1206099: A textbook store sold a combined total of 215 psychology and history textbooks in a week. The number of psychology textbooks sold was 57 more than the number of history textbooks sold. How many textbooks of each type were sold? \n" ); document.write( "
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "let psychology textbooks be \"p\" and history textbooks \"h\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "if the store sold a combined total of \"215\", we have \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"p%2Bh=215\"....eq.1\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "if the number of psychology textbooks sold was \"57\" more than the number of history textbooks sold, we have \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " \"p=h%2B57\"...eq.2\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "substitute \"p\" in eq.1\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"h%2B57%2Bh=215\"....eq.1\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"2h=215-57\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"2h=158\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"h=79\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "go to eq.2, substitute \"h\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"p=79%2B57\"...eq.2\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "\"p=136\"\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "so, \"136\" psychology and \"79\" history textbooks were sold\r
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