SOLUTION: On vacation, Lou took p photographs. He used 4 times as many memory cards as Kathy. Kathy used 2 memory cards and each contained 240 photographs. How many photographs p Lou took wh

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Question 948560: On vacation, Lou took p photographs. He used 4 times as many memory cards as Kathy. Kathy used 2 memory cards and each contained 240 photographs. How many photographs p Lou took while on vacation?
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p=number of photographs;
Kathy used 2 cards, so Lou used 4(2 cards)=8 cards
Each card contains 240 photographs, so Lou took:
p=8 cards*240 photographs/1 card= 1920 photographs
ANSWER: Lou took 1920 photographs on vacation.