Question

a bookshop has three times as many magazines as books. there are 2244 magazines. what equation can you use to find how many books, b, there are ? how many books are there? how many books and magazines are there altogether? what equation can you use to find the answer?

Answer 1

Let x be the number of books. Since the bookshop has three times as many magazines as books this means that we have the following number of books:

`(2244)/(3)=x`

Therefore we have 748 books in the store.

The total number of magazines and books are:

`x+2244`

Since, x=748, then we have:

`x+2244=748+2244=2992`

Therefore, we have a total of 2992 magazines and books.

Let y be the equation to find both magazines and books, then:

`y=748+2244`