Question

The store sold 25% of its books over the holiday, and now it has 600 books in stock.

How many books the store had before holidays?

Answer 1

Answer: If the store sold 25% of its books during the holiday, that means it has 75% of its books left in stock after the holiday. Let's represent the original number of books with the variable "x".

So, if 75% of x is equal to 600 books, we can write an equation:

0.75x = 600

To solve for x, we can divide both sides by 0.75:

x = 600 / 0.75

x = 800

Therefore, the store had 800 books before the holiday.

Explanation:

Answer 2

Let x be the number of books the store had before the holidays.

During the holidays, the store sold 25% of its books, which means it sold 0.25x books.

After the holidays, the store has 600 books in stock.

Therefore, the number of books before the holidays can be found by adding the number of books sold during the holidays to the number of books in stock after the holidays:

x = 0.25x + 600

Solving for x:

0.75x = 600

x = 800

So, the store had 800 books before the holidays.