SOLUTION: Hi a farmer sold some eggs in the morning. He then packed the remaining eggs into 15 cartons with 25 eggs each.if the number he sold was 3/5 of the number of eggs he packed, how m

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Question 1097499: Hi
a farmer sold some eggs in the morning. He then packed the remaining eggs into 15 cartons with 25 eggs each.if the number he sold was 3/5 of the number of eggs he packed, how many eggs did he have initially.
My solution was 625 eggs textbook 600 eggs. Who is correct?
Thanks
Answer by josmiceli(19441) About Me  (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let +x+ = number of eggs he had initially
+15%2A25+=+375+
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+x+=+%283%2F5%29%2A375+
+x+=+225+
Initially he had +225+%2B+375+=+600+ egss