In a certain town there were 113 robberies last year. This year the number of robberies has gone down 14%. How many robberies were there this year, to the nearest whole number?

probability for j is 1/4

while

a is 1/6

sites:

or

step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!