SOLUTION: Circle Path, Inc. makes bicycles, tricycles, and unicycles. Last week they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles, and 5 times as many tricycles as unicycles. If they made 40 more bi

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Question 63034: Circle Path, Inc. makes bicycles, tricycles, and unicycles. Last week they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles, and 5 times as many tricycles as unicycles. If they made 40 more bicycles than tricycles, how many unicycles did they make?
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Circle Path, Inc. makes bicycles, tricycles, and unicycles. Last week they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles, and 5 times as many tricycles as unicycles. If they made 40 more bicycles than tricycles, how many unicycles did they make?
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Let number of unicycles be "x"
Then number of bicycles is "x+88"
And number of tricycles is "5x"
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EQUATION:
# tricycles = # bicycles -40
5x=x+88-40
4x=48
x=12 (# of unicycles made)
Cheers,
Stan H.