document.write( "Question 923975: Peter is 7 years old and Mary is 3 years old. In how many years will the product of their ages be 96?
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Peter is 7 years old and Mary is 3 years old. In how many years will the product of their ages be 96?
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document.write( "Let amount of years when product of their ages is 96, be Y
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document.write( "At that time(Y years from now), Peter will be 7 + Y, and Mary will be 3 + Y
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document.write( "Thus, we get:
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document.write( "(7 + Y)(3 + Y) = 96 
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document.write( " ----- FOILing left side of equation
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document.write( ", or 
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document.write( "There's your quadratic equation
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document.write( "Solve for Y, the amount of years from now, when their ages will multiply to 96 \n" );
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