document.write( "Question 200503: 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 than tricycles, how many unicycles did they make? \n" ); document.write( "
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Cycle Paths, inc. makes bicycles, tricycles, and unicycles.
\n" ); document.write( " Last week they made 88 more bicycles than unicycles, and 5 times as many
\n" ); document.write( " tricycles as unicycles.
\n" ); document.write( "If they made 40 more bicycles than tricycles, how many unicycles did they make?
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\n" ); document.write( "Let the no. of each be: b, t, u
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\n" ); document.write( "Write an equation for each statement:
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\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 than tricycles,\"
\n" ); document.write( "b = t + 40
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\n" ); document.write( "In the above equation, replace b with (u+88) and t with (5u)
\n" ); document.write( "u + 88 = 5u + 40
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\n" ); document.write( "88 - 40 = 5u - u
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\n" ); document.write( "48 = 4u
\n" ); document.write( "u = \"48%2F4\"
\n" ); document.write( "u = 12 unicyles
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