SOLUTION: Separate 100 into two parts so that one part is 3 times the other.

SOLUTION: Separate 100 into two parts so that one part is 3 times the other.

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Question 316518: Separate 100 into two parts so that one part is 3 times the other.
Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the two parts be A and B.
1.
2.
Use eq. 2 in eq. 1,

Then from eq. 2,

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