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document.write( "A motel rents double rooms at $35 per day and single rooms at $23 per day. If 27 rooms were rented one day for a total of $849, how many rooms of each kind were rented? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "A motel rents double rooms at $35 per day and single rooms at $23 per day. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "If 27 rooms were rented one day for a total of $849, how many rooms of each kind were rented?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Equations:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Quantity: s + d = 27<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Value::: 23s + 35d = 849<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Multiply thru the 1st equation by 23 to get:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "23s + 23d = 23*27<BR>\n" );
document.write( "23s + 35d = 849<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Subtract and solve for \"d\":<BR>\n" );
document.write( "12d = 228<BR>\n" );
document.write( "d = 19 (# of double rooms rented)<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "solve for \"s\":<BR>\n" );
document.write( "s + d = 27<BR>\n" );
document.write( "s + 19 = 27<BR>\n" );
document.write( "s = 8 (# of single rooms rented)<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Cheers,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "stan H. </SPAN>\n" );
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