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document.write( "If a pipe can fill a tank in x hours, what fractional \r\n" );
document.write( "part of the tank will be filled in one hour?\r\n" );
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document.write( "Let's look at a bunch of particular cases when we have a\r\n" );
document.write( "number instead of the letter \"x\":\r\n" );
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document.write( "Case 1: \r\n" );
document.write( "If a pipe can fill a tank in  hour, what fractional \r\n" );
document.write( "part of the tank will be filled in one hour?  Answer: th of it. \r\n" );
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document.write( "[That's 1, or 100%, or all of it]\r\n" );
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document.write( "Case 2:\r\n" );
document.write( "If a pipe can fill a tank in  hours, what fractional \r\n" );
document.write( "part of the tank will be filled in one hour?  Answer:  of it.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Case 3: \r\n" );
document.write( "If a pipe can fill a tank in  hours, what fractional \r\n" );
document.write( "part of the tank will be filled in one hour?  Answer: rd of it.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Case 4: \r\n" );
document.write( "If a pipe can fill a tank in  hours, what fractional \r\n" );
document.write( "part of the tank will be filled in one hour?  Answer: th of it.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Case 5: \r\n" );
document.write( "If a pipe can fill a tank in  hours, what fractional \r\n" );
document.write( "part of the tank will be filled in one hour?  Answer: th of it.\r\n" );
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document.write( "If a pipe can fill a tank in  hours, what fractional \r\n" );
document.write( "part of the tank will be filled in one hour?  Answer: th of it.\r\n" );
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document.write( "part of the tank will be filled in one hour?  Answer: th of it.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now that list can go on forever and ever.  But look at what \r\n" );
document.write( "is always true in every case above:\r\n" );
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document.write( "If a pipe can fill a tank in a certain number of hours, what \r\n" );
document.write( "fractional part of the tank will be filled in one hour?  \r\n" );
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document.write( "The answer is always ths of it.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So if we replace the words \"that certain number\" by the letter \r\n" );
document.write( "\"x\" you could say this about every one of those:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Case x: \r\n" );
document.write( "If a pipe can fill a tank in  hours, what fractional part \r\n" );
document.write( "of the tank will be filled in one hour?  Answer: ths of it.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So the answer is .\r\n" );
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