Alibrary contains 2000 books. there are 3 times as man non fiction books. write and solve a systems of equations to determine the number of nonfiction and fiction books.

The number of fiction books is 500 and non fiction books is 1500.

Step-by-step explanation:

Given:

Total book library contains = 2000.

There are 3 times as many non fiction books as fiction books.

Now, to determine the number of non fiction books and fiction books.

Let the fiction books be

And the non fiction books be

Total books = 2000.

Now, to get the number of non fiction books and fiction books we put an equation:

Dividing both sides by 4 we get:

Fiction books = 500.

Non fiction books =

Therefore, the number of fiction books is 500 and non fiction books is 1500.

not enough information

step-by-step explanation:

we cannot know this, because the other students could have handed out 10 flyers, or they could have handed out 100. one way, the mean would go up, and another way, the mean would go down.

i think the correct option is the second option.