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A textbook store sold a combined total of 259 chemistry and sociology textbooks in a week. The number of sociology textbooks sold was 81 less than the number of chemistry textbooks sold. How many textbooks
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A textbook store sold a combined total of 259 chemistry and sociology textbooks in a week. The number of sociology textbooks sold was 81 less than the number of chemistry textbooks sold. How many textbooks of each type were sold?

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259-81 you have to subtract

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