I don't get this? "In August 2013, there were more than 119,000 people on wait list"

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I don't get this? "In August 2013, there were more than 119,000 people on wait list"

Here's a word problem that's is not making sense to me.
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In August of 2013, there were more than 119,000 people on the waiting list for organ transplants. There were 113,162 people waiting for a kidney or a liver, and 81,528 fewer were waiting for a liver than for a kidney. How many were on the waiting list for a kidney? for a liver?

The answer is 94345 kidney and 15817 liver.

I can't get these answers. I don't get what fewer is referring to. Because to me it seems like simple subtraction but the answer says otherwise. Please help. thank you
 
The sum of people waiting for a kidney or a liver was 113,162. There were 81,528 fewer people waiting for a liver than for a kidney. Looks like a good candidate for a system of 2 equations.
 
Here's a word problem that's is not making sense to me.
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In August of 2013, there were more than 119,000 people on the waiting list for organ transplants. There were 113,162 people waiting for a kidney or a liver, and 81,528 fewer were waiting for a liver than for a kidney. How many were on the waiting list for a kidney? for a liver?

The answer is 94345 kidney and 15817 liver.

I can't get these answers. I don't get what fewer is referring to. Because to me it seems like simple subtraction but the answer says otherwise. Please help. thank you

I don't get those answers either; and they don't check out. With those numbers, the total number needing either transplant would be 94,345 + 15,817 = 110,162, not 113,162. And the number needing a liver would be 94,345 - 15,817 = 78,528 fewer than those needing a kidney.

So either the problem or the answer is wrong. Did you copy everything correctly?

When you don't get the book's answer, it's a good idea to check their answer before deciding you're doing something wrong.
 
In August of 2013, there were more than 119,000 people on the waiting list for organ transplants. There were 113,162 people waiting for a kidney or a liver, and 81,528 fewer were waiting for a liver than for a kidney. How many were on the waiting list for a kidney? for a liver?
The answer is 94345 kidney and 15817 liver.
We must assume the no one is waiting for both.
\(\displaystyle \begin{align*}K+L&=113162 \\L&=K-81528\\K+(K-81528)&=113162 \end{align*}\)

BTW: This gives K=97345 not 94345.
 
Thanks for the solution.
all the numbers are copied correctly. So the book must be wrong. I found it a confusing question because of the wording.
 
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