The library at school is organized by fiction and non-fiction books. There are 3 non-fiction books for every 7 fiction books. How many total books are there if the library has 240 non-fiction books?

Total = 800 books

Step-by-step explanation:

It is given that,

In a library, there are 3 non-fiction books for every 7 fiction books. It means that the ratio of non-fiction books to the fiction books is 3:7.

There if the library has 240 non-fiction books.

Let non fiction books are 3x and fiction books are 7x.

ATQ,

3x=240

x=80

Fiction books = 7x = 7(80) = 560

Total no of books = fiction books + non-fiction books

= 240 + 560

=800

Hence, the total no of books are 800.

step-by-step explanation:

12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 7 hours.

4: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m. is a total of 3 hours.

this means that from 4: 00 p.m to 7: 00 p.m. this represents 3/7 of what was lost from 12: 00 p.m. to 7: 00 p.m.

after knowing this, after doing 11,600 - 6,800 = 4,800

4,800 represents 3/7 of what was lost for 7 hours.

we then divide 4,800 by 3 which gets 1,600.

because we know that 1,600 represents 1/7 of how much water was lost, we just have to multiply by 7, which gets 11,200.   after adding 11,200 to how much water was left at 7: 00 p.m. which was 6,800. 11,200 + 6,800 = 18,000

this means that the pool originally had 18,000 gallons in the pool.

you can also check your work by doing 18,000 - 4(1600), which becomes           1800 - 6400 which gets you 11,600.

step-by-step explanation:

is their an equation anywhere i can take a   look at it and see if i am right.