Question

There are 70 historical fiction books in the school library. Historical fiction books make up 1/10 of the library's collection. The equation 1/10b= 70 can be used to find out how many books in library's collection

Answer 1

There are 700 books in Library Collections.

Explanation:

Given:

Number of historical books = 70

The equation used to find the totals number of books in library collection.

`(1)/(10)b = 70`

where b⇒ Total number of books in library collections.

We need to find the Total number of books in library collections.

Solution:

`(1)/(10)b = 70`

Now by solving the above equation we get;

First we will multiply both side by 10 we get;

`(1)/(10)b * 10= 70* 10\\\\b =700`

Hence there are 700 books in Library Collections.