document.write( "Question 143654: Say I collect gold coins. One day, my wife asks, ‘How many do we have?’ I say, ‘If I divide the coins into two groups, then 33 times the difference between the number of coins in each group equals the difference between the squares of the two numbers.’ How many coins do we have?“\r
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Algebra.Com's Answer #104541 by josmiceli(19441)\"\" \"About 
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\"33%2A%28a-b%29+=+a%5E2+-+b%5E2\"
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\n" ); document.write( "They have 33 coins. It is impossible to tell
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