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document.write( "pop's cycle shop sells bicycles and tricycles. the number of bicycles is 1 less than 4 times the number of tricycles. all the bicycles ans tricycles together have a total of 174 wheels. how many bicycles are there? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Cycle Quantity: b = 4t-1<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Wheel Quantity: 2b + 3t = 174<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Substitute for \"b\" and solve for \"t\":<BR>\n" );
document.write( "2(4t-1) + 3t = 174<BR>\n" );
document.write( "8t-2 + 3t = 174<BR>\n" );
document.write( "11t = 176<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "t = 16 (# of tricycles)<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Since b = 4t-1, b = 4*16-1 = 63 (# of bicycles)<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Cheers,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Stan H. </SPAN>\n" );
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