document.write( "Question 171080: heckle and jeckle shared the driving ona 500 mile trip. heckle drove 80 miles more than jeckle. how far did heckle drive? \n" ); document.write( "

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lets call the distance heckle drove 500-x and the amount jeckle drove x.
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\n" ); document.write( "so if you take the amount driven by heckle and subtract out jeckles miles it will equal 80 since he drove 80 more miles
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\n" ); document.write( "so (500-x)-x=80
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\n" ); document.write( "500-2x=80
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\n" ); document.write( "-2x=-420
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\n" ); document.write( " $\"highlight%28x=210%29\"$ miles driven by Jeckle
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\n" ); document.write( " $\"highlight%28500-210=290%29\"$ miles driven by Heckle \n" ); document.write( "

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