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A bookstore sold 18,000 paperbacks one month. This was 10% less than the number of paperbacks the store sold the previous month. The following equation represents this situation, where x represents the number of paperbacks sold the previous month. x - 0.1x = 18,000 How many paperbacks did the store sell in both months combined?

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