document.write( "Question 681599: Miss C is having a film day.She's going to watch 5 films
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document.write( "The lengths of films A+B together is 3h 20 minutes
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document.write( "The lengths of films B+C together is 3h 05 minutes
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document.write( "The lengths of films C+D together is 2h 20 minutes
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document.write( "The lengths of films D+E together is 2h 00 minutes\r
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document.write( "Film B is the longest
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document.write( "How long is each film?\r
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document.write( "I am really struggling with this (my 9 year olds homework!!) is there a key piece of info missing? \n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #422730 by jim_thompson5910(35256)![]() ![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! You have 5 unknowns, but you only have 4 equations. So you're going to have an infinite number of solutions. If you are only looking at integral solutions, then you won't have infinitely many of them, but you'll still have a lot (I'm counting at least 119 solutions).\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "So yes, you need one last equation (or some other piece of information). \n" ); document.write( " |