SOLUTION: How do I setup this problem? Article of 48,000 words, a printer decides to use two sizes of type. Using the larger type, a printed page contains 1,800 words. Using smaller type, a

Question 763268: How do I setup this problem? Article of 48,000 words, a printer decides to use two sizes of type. Using the larger type, a printed page contains 1,800 words. Using smaller type, a page contains 2,400 words. The article is allotted 21 full pages in a magazine. How many pages must be in smaller type?
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Answer by MathLover1(20850) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let be the number of pages of type and the number of pages of type.
The total number of pages is:
.....eq.1
Rewrite as:
The total number of words is:
....eq.2
Substitute the into the second equation and solve for .

...... The number of pages of small type.

....... The number of pages of large type.

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