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Matt gives half of his books to the local library and kept the other half.His best friend gives him 3 more books.He now has 57 books.How many did he have to start. This is a algebra question haves to have
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Matt gives half of his books to the local library and kept the other half.His best friend gives him 3 more books.He now has 57 books.How many did he have to start.

This is a algebra question haves to have a main first equation

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just work it backwords 57-3=54 then because this is hakf his original amount of books multioky by 2 and you get the answer 108. I hope this helped. :)
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