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Answer:
There are 1500 non fiction books and 500 fiction books currently in the store.
Step-by-step explanation:
Given:
Total Number of books = 2000
Let the number of fiction books be 'x'.
Now given:
There are 3 times as many non-fiction books as fiction books.
Number of non fiction books =
We need to find the number of non-fiction and fiction books.
Solution:
Now we know that;
Total Number of books is equal to sum of the number of non-fiction and fiction books.
framing in equation form we get;
Dividing both side by 4 we get;
Number of fiction books = 500
Number of non fiction books =
Hence There are 1500 non fiction books and 500 fiction books currently in the store.