SOLUTION: a cobbler makes slippers for bats and cats today he makes twice as many bats as cats that is 104 individual slippers how many bat slippers did he make

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Question 943512: a cobbler makes slippers for bats and cats
today he makes twice as many bats as cats
that is 104 individual slippers
how many bat slippers did he make
Answer by macston(5194) About Me  (Show Source):
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C=Number cat slippers B= Number bat slippers=2C
C+B=C+2C=104 (total slippers)
3C=104
C=104/3= 34 2/3 He made 34 2/3 Cat slippers
B=2C=2(34 2/3)=69 1/3
ANSWER He made 69 1/3 Bat slippers
CHECK
Bat slippers + cat slippers = total slippers
69 1/3+ 34 2/3=104
104=104