document.write( "Question 898173: The number of men is 850 more than that of women on a beach if there 1,460 men how many people are there on a beach? \n" ); document.write( "

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The number of men is 850 MORE THAN that of women on a beach.
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document.write( "Let's re-write this \"MORE THAN\" sentence as a \"LESS THAN\" sentence:\r\n" );
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document.write( "The number of women is 850 LESS THAN that of men on a beach.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now we see that to find the number of women, we subtract 850 \r\n" );
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document.write( "1460  <--number of men\r\n" );
document.write( "-850  <--subtract 850\r\n" );
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document.write( " 610  <--number of women\r\n" );
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document.write( "1460  <--number of men\r\n" );
document.write( "+610  <--number of women\r\n" );
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document.write( "2070  <--number of people\r\n" );
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