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document.write( " Father's age is three years more than three times the <BR>\n" );
document.write( "son's age.After three years, father's age will be ten years more <BR>\n" );
document.write( "than twice the son's age.What is the father's present age.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I tried it like dis\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "let son's age be x and father's be y\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So,from Ist condition v have \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "y=3x+3\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "and second we have\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "y+3=2(3x+3)+10\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I dont know where i m getting wrong. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Your first equation is spot on:  <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE y\ =\ 3x\ +\ 3\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "But your second one has a problem.  Since today the son is <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE x\"> years old and the father is <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE y\"> years old, in three years the son will be <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE x\ +\ 3\"> and the father <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE y\ +\ 3\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Then, according to the second condition:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ y\ +\ 3\ =\ 2(x\ +\ 3)\ +\ 10\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Now add -3 to both sides of the second equation:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ y\ =\ 2(x\ +\ 3)\ +\ 7\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Now you have <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE y\"> equal to two different things.  Set them equal to each other:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ 3x\ +\ 3\ =\ 2(x\ +\ 3)\ +\ 7\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "And solve for <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE x\">\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "John<BR>\n" );
document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\"><BR>\n" );
document.write( "My calculator said it, I believe it, that settles it<BR>\n" );
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