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conversations.value: I'm completely lost with this math problem: If Pete read twice as many books as Matt did last year, and this year he doubles that number while Matt reads only 50% more, how many books does Pete read across both years if Matt read 75 books in his second year?
  Can you give me a hand?
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conversations.value: First, we need to find the amount Matt read both years to establish what Pete read, so to find Matt's first-year total we multiply 75 / 1.5 = 50 books the previous year.
  Since Pete read twice as many books as Matt did in the first year, and Matt's first-year total is 50, this means Pete read 50*2=100 books his first year.
  Since Pete doubled the number of books he read the following year, this means Pete read 100*2=200 books the following year.
  We add the two years of Pete's reading together to find 200+100=300 books read in total.