Question

Jacob reads a number of books in July and 8 books in August. During these same months, Marcus reads 3 times as many books as Jacob reads. Write an expression that could be used to find the number of books Marcus reads in July and August combined. Let b represent the number of books Jacob reads in July.

Answer 1

8 = 3 / x , this is your equation , 8 and 3 where the only numbers , your question is kinda hard to comprehend