document.write( "Question 804695: when your doing a problem and that u have the price of everything together but they asking for the price of just one of the objects how do u find it when they only give u the price of everything \n" ); document.write( "

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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "You aren't explaining this very well, but I'm guessing you mean that you have one of those problems where they say 6 pencils and 2 tablets cost some amount, and then 4 pencils and 3 tablets cost some other amount, then they want you to figure out the cost of one pencil and the cost of one tablet.\r
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represent the cost of one of the items,

represent the cost of the other item,

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bet the two different numbers of item 1, and

and

be the two different numbers of item 2, and finally, let

be the cost of the first combination and

be the cost of the second combination. Then you can form two linear equations in two variables:\r
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