Question

Jessica and Josh are selling Entertainment Books to raise money for the art room at their school. One book sells for $15. Jessica received the prize for selling the most books in the school. Jessica sold 15 times more books than Josh. Together they sold 256 books. How many did each one of them sell?

Answer 1

Jessica=240

Josh=15

Explanation:

Answer 2

Answer:-

Jessica sells = 240 books,

Josh sells = 16 books.

Given:-

The price of one book is = $15

Jessica sold 15 times more books than Josh.

In total, they have sold 256 books.

Solution:-

We can easily find the answer using variables.

Let,

Josh sold a total of x books whereas Jessica sold a total number of 15x books.

together they sold 16x books.

So we can form the equation

16x= 256

by solving this equation we will get x=16

So, Josh sold 16 books and Jessica sold 16×15=240 books in total.