document.write( "Question 314489: The sum of two numbers is twenty. Three times the smaller number is equal to two times the larger number.\r
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1.\"A%2BB=20\"
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\n" ); document.write( "Multiply eq. 1 by 3,
\n" ); document.write( "\"3A%2B3B=60\"
\n" ); document.write( "Now substitute eq. 2,
\n" ); document.write( "\"2B%2B3B=60\"
\n" ); document.write( "\"5B=60\"
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\n" ); document.write( "Then from eq. 1,
\n" ); document.write( "\"A%2B12=20\"
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