document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=201528>Question 201528</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Two years from now, Jorge will be 3 times as old as Maria is now, in ten years, Jorge will be four times as old as Maria is now.  What are Jorge's and Maria's current age? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Let <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\"> represent Jorge's age now.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Let <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large y\"> represent Maria's age now.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Two years from now, Jorge will be <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x + 2\"> so:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ x + 2 = 3y\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Ten years from now, Jorge will be <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x + 10\"> so:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ x + 10 = 4y\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Solve the system for <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large x\"> and <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\Large y\">.  Use the elimination method beginning with multiplying the first equation by -1.  Then adding the equations will give you Maria's age directly.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\"><BR>\n" );
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