A shop owner sold 27 books on Friday. This was 9 more than the number of books he sold on Thursday. Identifyan equation and its solution that shows the number of books he sold o…

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Spzvtbg · Answer 1 · 2023-03-15T08:52:04+0000

Given:

A shop owner sold 27 books on Friday.

This was 9 more than the number of books he sold on Thursday.

Let, the number of books shop owner sold on thursday is x .

The eqaution is given as,

Now, solve the equation,

$\begin{gathered} 27=9+x \\ x=27-9 \\ x=18 \end{gathered}$

Answer: the number of books sold on thursday is 18.