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document.write( "A shoe store sells 4 pairs of back shoes for every 7 pairs of brown shoes.  There were 4,900 pairs of brown shoes last year.  How many pairs of black shoes were sold?  \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Thank you!!!  </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Divide 4900 by 7 and get 700.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "For each of these 700 pairs of \"7 brown shoes\", 4 black<BR>\n" );
document.write( "shoes were sold. So there were 4(700)= 2800 black shoes <BR>\n" );
document.write( "sold.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Cheers,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Stan H. </SPAN>\n" );
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