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You sold 4 more than three times as many newspapers this week as last week. If you sold 112 altogether, how many did you sell this week?
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You sold 4 more than three times as many newspapers this week as last week. If you sold 112 altogether, how many did you sell this week?

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Let the amount of papers you sold this week be "n".

4 x 3n = 112
3n = 108
n = 36
So you sold 36 papers this week
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