SOLUTION: Brian gave 10 stamps from his collection to both Sam and Rob. Then he gave 14 stamps to Kathy and 6 stamps to Grace. He still had 275 stamps. How many stamps were in Brian’s coll

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Question 1165034: Brian gave 10 stamps from his collection to both Sam and Rob. Then he gave 14 stamps to Kathy and 6 stamps to Grace. He still had 275 stamps. How many stamps were in Brian’s collection to begin with?
can you provide an equation pls
Answer by greenestamps(13209) About Me  (Show Source):
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x = number he started with

x-10-10-14-6 = number he ended with

He ended with 275 stamps:

x-10-10-14-6+=+275

Solve using very basic algebra....