SOLUTION: By February 2012, Nintendo had sold one and one− half as many Wii game machines worldwide as Sony had sold Play Station 3 consoles. Together, they sold 154 million game mach

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Question 1068289: By February 2012, Nintendo had sold one and one− half as many Wii game machines worldwide as Sony had sold Play Station 3 consoles. Together, they sold 154 million game machines. How many of each were sold?
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N=%281%2B1%2F2%29W
N=%283%2F2%29W
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N%2BW=154
Substitute,
%283%2F2%29W%2BW=154
%283%2F2%29W%2B%282%2F2%29W=154
%285%2F2%29W=154
W=154%282%2F5%29
Solve for W, then go back to either equation and solve for N.