A publisher had a tiltle reduction and lost 1/11 of its titles. If 220 of its titles were left after the reduction, how many titles were there orriginally?

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radar · Answer

Let x = the number of original titles.
then x/11 is the number of titles lost in reduction.  Then we would have this equation:

x - x/11 =220    Solve by multiplying through by 11 getting
11x - x =2420
10x = 2420
x = 242     that is the original number of titles.

radar · Answer

get it?  dog1985

anonymous · Answer

Yes I do. Thanks for showing me.

radar · Answer

No problem, and you are welcome, wishing you good luck with your studies.