April buys eight books for $44. Paperback books cost $4 and hand back books cost $8. How many of each type of book did she buy

h = the number of hard-back books
p = the number of paper-back books

p + h = 8 books

4p + 8h = $44

-4p – 4h = -32
4p + 8h = 44

4h = 12

h = 3

5 paperback books and 3 hardback books.

My friend was telling me that there were a series of books that the color on the cover told you what the book was about. Like red means rape, or silver means cutting, and black means depression. I wanna know what those books are called. Thanks.

are you talking about the books by Ellen Hopkins? They’re written in poem like form. There’s:
Crank (black-drugs), Glass (purple-drugs… it’s the second book following Crank), Impulse (red-suicide), Burned (white-rape), Identical (silver-also rape type i think), Fallout (yellow/gold -third book after Crank and Glass), Tricks (red -haven’t red this one yet) and I think one or two more.

i’m not sure if these are what you’re talking about, but even if they aren’t you should check them out they’re pretty good in my opinion.