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Algebra.Com's Answer #542613 by Edwin McCravy(20056) $\"\"$ $\"About$

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document.write( "So some power of 4 minus some power of 9 equals 55.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Some powers of 9 are \r\n" );
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document.write( "It only takes a little while to look through those, ignoring the huge\r\n" );
document.write( "ones, and to see that 64-9 = 55\r\n" );
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document.write( "So x=3, y=1\r\n" );
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