Question 1164101
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On August 7, the Abbott family received 31 pieces of {{{highlight(cross(may))}}} <U>mail</U>, 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


<A HREF=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</A>


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 . . .