document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=927694>Question 927694</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> In 1963, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his famous \"I have a dream\" speech with the words \"Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand, signed the Emancipation Proclamation.\"  The Emancipation Proclamation was signed by President Abraham Lincoln in 1863.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "a. Using the dates given, write and solve an equation that will calculate the number of years in a score.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "b. How many score would represent 60 years? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "abraham signed the emancipation proclamation in 1863.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "that was 100 years ago.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "5 score equals 100 years.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "divide both side of this equation by 5 and you get:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "1 score equals 20 years.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "60 years would represent 3 score.<BR>\n" );
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