document.write( "Question 189676: In the 2004 summer olympics, the United states team won 3 more gold medals than the chinese team. If teh total number of gold medals won by both teams is 67, how many gold medals did each team win? \n" ); document.write( "
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let the number of golds won by china and US be C and U respectively
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\n" ); document.write( "C+U=67.......eq 1
\n" ); document.write( "U=C+3........eq 2
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\n" ); document.write( "take U's value from eq 2 and plug it into eq 1
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\n" ); document.write( "C+C+3=67
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\n" ); document.write( "2C=64
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\n" ); document.write( "C=32
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\n" ); document.write( "U=C+3=32+3=35
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