Can someone help me with this word problem?

David sell four times as many towels as Daniel. The difference between their sales is 96 towels. How many towels did each sell?

Anonymous2015-01-21T04:12:43Z

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You know two things. David sold 4 times as many towels as Daniel. Make the number of towels David sold X. Make the number of towels Daniel sold Y. Then you know that x=4y.
You also know that David sold 96 more towels than Daniel. So x=y+96.

Now take what you know about x from the first formula and substitute it in the second
4y=y+96.
Now solve for y.

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Sel2015-01-21T04:02:26Z

It's impossible. Four times more and the difference is 96 units?

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