One month, a music site observed that 60% of the people who downloaded songs from its site downloaded Q Sam's latest single. The equation below represents this information, where x represents the total number of people who downloaded songs from the site that month.

x = 0.6x + 384

How many people who downloaded songs from the site that month downloaded Q Sam's latest single?

Question

One month, a music site observed that 60% of the people who downloaded songs from its site downloaded Q Sam's latest single. The equation below represents this information, where x represents the total number of people who downloaded songs from the site that month.

x = 0.6x + 384

How many people who downloaded songs from the site that month downloaded Q Sam's latest single?

agreene · Answer

x=960
But, what is giving you problems with this question, so I might help you...

anonymous · Answer

I have a problem understanding word problems

agreene · Answer

Okay, well in this problem, the word parts are just giving a reason to the equation. But really none of it matters except where they say:
that the equation represents the information about who buys Sam Q's album. 
A lot of times, word problems have extra information in them that just checks to see if you understand what you need to know to solve something.