Question 1164101: On August 7, the abbott family recieved 31 pieces of may, consisting of magazines, bills, letters, and ads. If they recieved the same number of magazines as letters, three more bills than letters, and five more ads than bills, how many magazines did they receive?
Answer by ikleyn(52817)   (Show Source):
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On August 7, the Abbott family received 31 pieces of  mail, consisting of
magazines, bills, letters, and ads. If they received the same number of
magazines as letters, three more bills than letters, and five more ads than
bills, how many magazines did they receive?
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Word-in-word and number-in-number, this problem was solved at this forum long time ago under the link
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/word/misc/Miscellaneous_Word_Problems.faq.question.380345.html
https://www.algebra.com/algebra/homework/word/misc/Miscellaneous_Word_Problems.faq.question.380345.html
In the link I referred to, the date was the " August, 4 ", which is, OBVIOUSLY, irrelevant . . .
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