Question

Over the summer, Jose collected used books to distribute to 15 Twig libraries in Chicago. At the beginning of the summer, he started out with 40 book. He collected enough books by the end of the summer to donate 35 books to each of the 15 libraries. Write an equation to represent this situation. Use x to represent the number of books Jose collected
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Answer 1

Jose collected 485 books over the summer.

The total number of books that he had at the end of the summer was 525. You can find this by multiplying 15 by 35, because each library received 35 books. Then, you need to subtract the 40 that he started with.

x = 35(15) - 40