Problema Solution
The parking lot had 1.5 times as many trucks as cars. After 45 more cars came to the parking lot and 12 trucks left, there were 17 more cars than trucks on the parking lot. How many cars were there on the parking lot?
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Let 'x' represent the number of cars on the parking lot.
Then the number of trucks is 1.5x trucks.
x + 45 = 17 + 1.5x - 12
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x = 80 cars
There were 80 cars on the parking lot.