document.write( "Question 334960: the u.s. senate has 100 members, all democractic or replublican. recently they where 12 more democracts than replublicians. How many senators from each replublican party where there at the time. \n" ); document.write( "

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represent the number of Republicans. Then

represents the number of Democrats.\r
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to get the number of Republicans.\r
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