SOLUTION: Please help me solve this word problem: The number of people hurt (injured and killed) in deer-vehicle collisions in 2008 was 33 less than double the number of people hurt in such

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Question 902915: Please help me solve this word problem: The number of people hurt (injured and killed) in deer-vehicle collisions in 2008 was 33 less than double the number of people hurt in such collisions in 1978. If the total number of people hurt in both these years was 819, how many were each in each year?
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n number in 1978
2n-33 + n = 819
3n = 852
n = 284, number in 1978.
In 2008 2%2A284-33