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document.write( "You have 1 equation in 2 unknowns, so no solution is possible.  You can only find one variable in terms of the other:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "ab+a-b=2001<BR>\n" );
document.write( "a(*b+1)-b = 2001<BR>\n" );
document.write( "a = (2001+b)/(b+1)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Or,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "b*(a-1)+a=2001<BR>\n" );
document.write( "b = (2001-a)/(a-1)<BR>\n" );
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