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23 April, 04:45

A textbook store sold a combined total of 343 history and chemistry textbooks in a week. The number of chemistry textbooks sold was 59 less than the number of history textbooks sold. How many textbooks of each type were sold?

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  1. 23 April, 05:01
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    Let the number of History books be x. Then:-

    x + x - 59 = 343

    2x = 402

    x = 201

    So there are 201 History books and (201 - 59) = 142 Chemistry books.
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