SOLUTION: The Book Nook makes four times as much revenue on paperback books as on hardcover books. If last month's sales totaled $124,300. how much was sold of each type of book? I get tha
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Question 759841: The Book Nook makes four times as much revenue on paperback books as on hardcover books. If last month's sales totaled $124,300. how much was sold of each type of book? I get that we wil multiply I try to put this together as Let 4X = Nook
Let X = paperback
Let H = hardcover
so I get to here with X + 4(4x - H) = 124,300.00 I can't figure how to find the hardcover or get it in the equation correctly. Answer by josgarithmetic(39616) (Show Source):
_______Revenue on a paperback is four times the revenue of a hardcover book.
If you assign:
x= how many paperbacks were sold
y = how many hardcovered were sold
Then the best you can do is make an equation for the months revenue:
or
You do not have enough information in your description to carry this any further.
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