Question

Last year, the school library had a total of x books. Over the summer, the library acquired another 38 books and now has a total of 1,038 books. Which equation could be used to find x, the number of books the library had last year?

Answer 1

So the total is
1038
And our amount of books before is
X

X was increased by 38 to get to 1038

Could you put that as an equation
Where
1038= ????