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Negative five is greater than thirty less than six times a number
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document.write( "Write \"-5\" for \"Negative five\", \"30\" for \"thirty\", and \"6\" for \"six\" \r\n" );
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document.write( "Replace the words \"is greater than\" by \">\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "Replace the words \"a number\" by \"x\":\r\n" );
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document.write( "Replace the words \"6 times x\" by \"6x\"\r\n" );
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document.write( "The last step is tricky.  Be careful\r\n" );
document.write( "not to get it backwards:\r\n" );
document.write( "To make something less,\r\n" );
document.write( "you write it down and then subtract from it.\r\n" );
document.write( "Therefore to make 6x less, you write 6x\r\n" );
document.write( "down and then subtract 30 from it.\r\n" );
document.write( "So we replace the words \"30 less than 6x\" by \"6x - 30\"\r\n" );
document.write( "and we have\r\n" );
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document.write( "Solve that and get \r\n" );
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document.write( "which also can be written \r\n" );
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