The color copy costs per page.

The balck and white copy cost per page.

Lakeisha spent on color and balck- and-white copies for her project.

She made more balck- and-white copies then color copies.

Find color copies.

Let is no of color copies.

Make a table:

Type of copy	Number of color copy	Price	\ Total price \
Color copy
Black- and -white copy
Total

Observe the table:

Total cost for Color copies plus Total cost for black & white copies equals Total price both copies.

Solve the equation.

                      (Original equation) 

                   (Simplify)

         (Subtract from each side)

                                            (Apply additive inverse property : )

                                       (Divide each side by )

                                                             (Cancel common terms)

Lakeisha made color copies.

Lakeisha made color copies.