There are three times as many fiction books as non-fiction books in a library. 120 fiction and 24 non-fiction books are loaned out. There are now twice as many non-fiction books as fiction books. How many books were in the library? How do I work this out step by step?

672

Step-by-step explanation:

If we call the number of non-fiction books as x, the number of fiction books would be 3x. Therefore: we can write the following equation:

3x - 120 = 2(x - 24)  ← the 3x - 120 and x - 24 represents the new number of books

3x - 120 = 2x - 48

x - 120 = 48

x = 168 which means 3x = 3 * 168 = 504, therefore the total number of books is 168 + 504 = 672.

fa tha first one you gonna add y to both sides

it look like this

x-y+y=6+y

x=y+6

therefore your answer is

x =y+6

fa tha second one

you gonna flip tha equation

it gonna look like x-4y=y

then add 4 to both sides

it gonna look like tha

x-4 +4 =y +4

so therefore tha answer is x=y+4

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