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Question 1137666: A textbook store sold a combined total of 479 psychology and sociology textbooks in a week. The number of sociology textbooks sold was 47 less than the number of psychology textbooks sold. How many textbooks of each type were sold?
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263 psychology books were sold
216 sociology books were sold
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