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OpenStudy (yanni):

There are 301 pounds on the left plate of a scale and 400 pounds on the right plate. Suppose that you must balance the scale by removing 5-pound bags from the left plate and exactly the same number of 8-pound bags from the right plate. How many bags must you remove from each side in order to balance the scale?

OpenStudy (cwrw238):

301 - 5x = 400 - 8x solve for x

OpenStudy (yanni):

33

OpenStudy (cwrw238):

right

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