document.write( "Question 919896: Joe did 7/8 of the problems on a quiz correctly and five incorrectly. if he did all the problems how many problems were there? \n" ); document.write( "
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Joe did 7/8 of the problems on a quiz correctly and five incorrectly. if he did all the problems how many problems were there?
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\n" ); document.write( "Let \"x\" be the number of problems.
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\n" ); document.write( "Equation::
\n" ); document.write( "(1/8)x = 5
\n" ); document.write( "x = 40 (# of problems)
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