Question

Last year, the school library had a total of x books. Over the summer, the library acquired another 36 books and now has a total of 2,284 books. Which

equation could be used to find x, the number of books the library had last year

Answer 1

2,248=2,284-36b

Explanation:

since the library acquired(added) 36 books the library now has a total of 2,284 books.

To find out how many books the library had before they added 36 books you need to set up a simple equation.

2,284-36=2248

since you now know that before summer the library had 2,248 books you would write an equation and when you solve it you should get 2,248. The equation should be 2,248=2,284-36b. b representing the total number of books that were added.

Hope this helped you!

Answer 2

the last year the eschool has 2248 books

Explanation:

2284-36=2248