document.write( "Question 640615: write an algebraic equation..... this year, your club made twice as much on their annual car wash as they did last year. the total sales for the two years is $384. how much did the club make this year?\r
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represent last year's take, and then

is this year's receipts.\r
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. Ordinarily, I would set the variable to be the thing you wanted to determine, but in this case that would have caused a fractional coefficient. I thought the extra step at the end to get to the final answer was worth not having the messiness of a fractional coefficient. One of those trade offs you have to make in life.\r
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