document.write( "Question 550658: each spring, the conservation authority stocks the local lake with 10 000 bass and perch. if there were three times as many bass and twice as many perch, the total number of fish would be 22 000. How many of each type of fish make up 10 000? \n" ); document.write( "

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Let $\"+b+\"$ = number of bass
\n" ); document.write( "Let $\"+p+\"$ = number of perch
\n" ); document.write( "given:
\n" ); document.write( "(1) $\"+b+%2B+p+=+10000+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "(2) $\"+3b+%2B+2p+=+22000+\"$
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\n" ); document.write( "Multiply both sides of (1) by $\"2\"$
\n" ); document.write( "and subtract (1) from (2)
\n" ); document.write( "(2) $\"+3b+%2B+2p+=+22000+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "(1) $\"+-2b+-+2p+=+20000+\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"+b+=+2000+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "and, from (1)
\n" ); document.write( "(1) $\"+2000+%2B+p+=+10000+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "(1) $\"+p+=+8000+\"$
\n" ); document.write( "There are 2,000 bass and 8,000 perch \n" ); document.write( "

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