document.write( "Question 367150: Best Buy sells 8 times as many iPods as Sears. The difference between their sales is 490 iPods. How many iPods did each sell?\r
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document.write( "Hi, 
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document.write( "*Note, whenever possible, use one variable in the set up
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document.write( "Let x represent number of Sear's iPods, 
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document.write( "then 8x would be the number of the Best Buy iPods
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document.write( "Write as we Read***
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document.write( "8x  -x = 490
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document.write( "7x = 490
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document.write( "x = 70, the number of Sear's iPods sold. Best Buy sells 560 (8*70)
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document.write( "checking our answer
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document.write( "560 - 70 = 490 \n" );
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