Question

Last year, the school library had a total of x books. Over the summer, the library acquired another 46 books and now had a total of 1,191 books. Which equation could be used to find x, the number of books the library had last year

Answer 1

x is 1,145

Explanation:

all you need to do is suntract 1,191 from 46 becase you do not know how many books they started with but you do know how many books they have after and how many books they got over the summer to add