Question

A clothing store sold 4 times as many sweaters as coats. The difference in the sales was 300. How many of each were sold?

Answer 1

Sweater = 400
coats = 100
difference= 300
in an equation it would be
4x-x=300
so
3x=300
x=100
sweaters= 4x= 400
coats= x= 100