Answer:
12 fiction books.
Step-by-step explanation:
Let b represent number of non-fiction books.
We have been given that in the library at Lenape elementary school, there are 3/8 as many fiction books as there are nonfiction books. So number of fiction books would be [tex]\frac{3}{8}x[/tex].
We are also told that there are 44 books in school library. We can represent this information in an equation as:
[tex]x+\frac{3}{8}x=44[/tex]
Let us solve for x.
[tex]\frac{8x}{8}+\frac{3}{8}x=44[/tex]
[tex]\frac{8x+3x}{8}=44[/tex]
[tex]\frac{11x}{8}=44[/tex]
[tex]\frac{11x}{8}\cdot \frac{8}{11}=44\cdot\frac{8}{11}[/tex]
[tex]x=4\cdot 8[/tex]
[tex]x=32[/tex]
Therefore, there are 32 non fiction books in the library.
Number of fiction books would be [tex]\frac{3}{8}x\Rightarrow \frac{3}{8}*32=3*4=12[/tex]
Therefore, there are 12 fiction books in the library.
