Sum, Difference & Multiple (2)( Week 45 Practice) 2. There were the equal number of books on two bookshelves. After 18 books were removed from the first shelf, and 24 books were added to the second shelf, the number of books on the second shelf was 3 times as many as on the first shelf. How many books were there on the second bookshelf originally? 3. The quotient of two numbers is 5 and their difference is 16. What is the larger number of the two? 4. Eric has a pile of pennies, nickels, and dimes with a total value of $2.40. There are 5 times as many pennies as nickels and there are 5 times as many nickels as dimes. How many dimes are there in the pile? 5. There are 117 more maple trees than oak trees. The number of maple trees is 15 more than 4 times the number of oak trees. How many maple trees are there? |