An online movie rental store rented out 6,816 movies one month. This was 40% less than the number of movies it rented out the previous month. The following equation represents this situation, where x represents the number of movies the store rented out the previous month.

x − 0.4x = 6,816

How many movies did the store rent out in both months combined?

Question

An online movie rental store rented out 6,816 movies one month. This was 40% less than the number of movies it rented out the previous month. The following equation represents this situation, where x represents the number of movies the store rented out the previous month.

x − 0.4x = 6,816

How many movies did the store rent out in both months combined?

anonymous · Answer

not 100% sure but i belive the answer is about 16,358 if it helps i could give you teh logic behind this answer