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document.write( "You are selling candy bars and sell 1/5 of them on the first day.  You have 40 left.  How many did you start with?  \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( " 40 x 1/5<BR>\n" );
document.write( "(multiply 5/5x 40 in order to get the common denominator) = 200/5 + 1/5 = 201/5<BR>\n" );
document.write( "201/4 = 401/5\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I hope that makes sense.  Thanks </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "x = original number of candy bars\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "We have x bars to start with and we sell 1/5 of them. So we sell x*(1/5) = x/5 candy bars. Subtract this from x to get \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "x - (x/5) = 5x/5 - (x/5) = (5x-x)/5 = 4x/5\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "So we start off with x bars and sell 1/5 of them to end up with 4x/5 bars\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "This expression (4x/5) is equal to 40 bars because we know that we have 40 bars after we sold that batch.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "4x/5 = 40\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "5*(4x/5) = 5*40 <font color=\"blue\">Multiply both sides by 5</font>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "4x = 200\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "4x/4 = 200/4 <font color=\"blue\">Divide both sides by 4.</font>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "x = 50\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Therefore we had 50 candy bars to start with </SPAN>\n" );
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