Olivia, Felicity and Jenson own a total of 77 books. Olivia owns $\frac{3}{11}$ of the books and Felicity owns $\frac{2}{7}$ of the books. We need to find how many books Jenson owns.

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2025/4/3

1. Problem Description

Olivia, Felicity and Jenson own a total of 77 books. Olivia owns 311\frac{3}{11} of the books and Felicity owns 27\frac{2}{7} of the books. We need to find how many books Jenson owns.

2. Solution Steps

First, we need to find out how many books Olivia owns.
Olivia owns 311\frac{3}{11} of the 77 books. So, we calculate 311×77\frac{3}{11} \times 77:
311×77=3×7711=3×7×1111=3×7=21\frac{3}{11} \times 77 = \frac{3 \times 77}{11} = \frac{3 \times 7 \times 11}{11} = 3 \times 7 = 21
Olivia owns 21 books.
Next, we need to find out how many books Felicity owns.
Felicity owns 27\frac{2}{7} of the 77 books. So, we calculate 27×77\frac{2}{7} \times 77:
27×77=2×777=2×11×77=2×11=22\frac{2}{7} \times 77 = \frac{2 \times 77}{7} = \frac{2 \times 11 \times 7}{7} = 2 \times 11 = 22
Felicity owns 22 books.
Now we know Olivia owns 21 books and Felicity owns 22 books.
The total number of books owned by Olivia and Felicity is 21+22=4321 + 22 = 43.
Since the total number of books is 77, Jenson owns the remaining books.
Jenson owns 7743=3477 - 43 = 34 books.

3. Final Answer

Jenson owns 34 books.

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