document.write( "Question 159960: Cycle paths inc. makes bicycles, tricycles, and unicycles. Last week they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles, and 5 times as many tricycles as unicycles. If they made 40 more bicycles that tricycles, how many unicycles did they make? \n" ); document.write( "
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Cycle paths inc. makes bicycles, tricycles, and unicycles. Last week they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles, and 5 times as many tricycles as unicycles. If they made 40 more bicycles that tricycles, how many unicycles did they make?
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\n" ); document.write( "Write an equation for each statement:
\n" ); document.write( "\"they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles,\"
\n" ); document.write( "b = u + 88
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\n" ); document.write( "\"and 5 times as many tricycles as unicycles.\"
\n" ); document.write( "t = 5u
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\n" ); document.write( "\" If they made 40 more bicycles that tricycles,\"
\n" ); document.write( "b = t + 40
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\n" ); document.write( " how many unicycles did they make?
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\n" ); document.write( "In the last equation, replace b with (u+88), and replace t with 5u
\n" ); document.write( "u + 88 = 5u + 40
\n" ); document.write( "88 - 40 = 5u - u
\n" ); document.write( "48 = 4u
\n" ); document.write( "u = \"48%2F4\"
\n" ); document.write( "u = 12 unicyles
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\n" ); document.write( "Check solution in the last equation;
\n" ); document.write( "b = 12 + 88 = 100
\n" ); document.write( "t = 5(12) = 60
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\n" ); document.write( "100 = 60 + 40 \n" ); document.write( "
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