Solve.
-The Discovery Museum is building a second parking garage. The second parking garage will have double the capacity, in parking spaces, of their original parking garage. If the sum of these integers
Is 1503, find the capacity for both parking garages.
A) 401 spaces, 902 spaces
B) 601 spaces, 902 spaces
C) 401 spaces, 1102 spaces
D) 501 spaces, 1002 spaces

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The original parking garage has a capacity of x spaces, and the second garage has double that capacity, so 2x spaces. The sum of their capacities is x + 2x = 3x = 1503. Solving for x gives x = 501 spaces for the original garage and 2x = 1002 spaces for the second garage.

Solve. -The Discovery Museum Is Building a Second Parking Garage. the the Second