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A textbook store sold a combined total of 301 biology and chemistry textbooks in a week

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A textbook store sold a combined total of 301 biology and chemistry textbooks in a week. The number of chemistry textbooks sold was 51 less than the number of biology textbooks sold. How many textbooks of each type were sold?

Number of biology textbooks sold:

Number of chemistry textbooks sold:

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Based on the given conditions of the algebraic problem, the number of biology textbooks sold was x = 176 while the number of chemistry textbooks sold was y = 125, for a total of 301 combined textbook sales.

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