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There are ten vehicles parked in a parking lot. Each is either a car with four tires or a motorcycle with two tires.There are 26 wheels in the lot. How many cars are in the lot?
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document.write( "If all 10 vehicles were motocycles there would be only 20 wheels. \r\n" );
document.write( " Since there are 26 the other 6 must belong to 3 cars.  So there are\r\n" );
document.write( "3 cars and 7 motorcycles.\r\n" );
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