Question

Over the past month, 900 trucks were sold. Abe sold 4 times as many as Joe. How many did each sell?A. Number of trucks Abe sold.

Answer 1

Let us assume that the number of trucks Joe sold is x.

If Abe sells 4 times as many trucks as Joe does, this means that Abe sells

`4* x=4x\text{ trucks}`

There were 900 trucks sold. Thus adding up the number of trucks both Abe and Joe sells will give us 900:

`4x+x=900`

Solving the expression, we can get the value for x to be

`\begin{gathered} 5x=900 \\ x=(900)/(5) \\ x=180 \end{gathered}`

Therefore, Joe sold 180 trucks.

The number of trucks sold by Abe will also be calculated as

`4*180=720`

Therefore, Abe sold 720 trucks.