document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=571560>Question 571560</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Imagine that you are in the market to purchase a new home.  The sales representative informs you that there are 56 houses available with two differant floor plans.  use x to represent floor plan 1 and y to represent floor plan 2 to create an equation that illustrates this situation if there are three times as many homes available with floor plan 2 than floor plan 1.  I do not understand if I am doing it correctly when I make the equation <BR>\n" );
document.write( "x+3y=56 ??? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Let x = number of floor plan 1 homes<BR>\n" );
document.write( "and y = number of floor plan 2 homes<BR>\n" );
document.write( "then from: \"there are 56 houses available\" we get:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x + y = 56 (equation 1)<BR>\n" );
document.write( "and from: \"there are three times as many homes available with floor plan 2 than floor plan 1\" we get:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "y = 3x  (equation 2)<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So, using the definition from equation 2, we substitute into equation 1:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "starting with equation 1:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x + y = 56<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x + 3x = 56  (I think this is more of what they wanted)<BR>\n" );
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