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27 June, 10:57

The library at school is organized By fiction and nonfiction books. There are 3 non-fiction books for every 7 fiction books how many total books are there in the library had 240 nonfiction books

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  1. 27 June, 11:17
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    You can set up a proportion for this problem. Let the total number of books = x

    The number of non-fiction books to the total number of books is

    3 / (7 + 3) books = 3/10

    3/10 = 240/x Cross multiply

    3x = 240 * 10 Combine the right

    3x = 2400 Divide by 3

    3x/3 = 2400/3 Divide

    x = 800

    Answer: 800 books in total.
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