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On Monday, the book store sold 75 books. On Tuesday, the bookstore sold 125 books. The bookstore must sell 500 books by Friday. Write an equation that can be used to find how many more books, b, the bookstore must sell.

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all you have to do is add 125 by 75 and you get 200. Now you have to subtract 500 by 200 which is 300 and here you go your answer is 300. The bookstore has to sell 300 more books in order to sell 500 books by friday
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