document.write( "Question 992568: samuel has 24 less CD's than jacob. if jacob gave away 4 CD's, Jacob would have 1 1/2 times as many CD's as samuel. how many CD's do samuel and jacob have together? \n" ); document.write( "

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Let J be the number of CDs jacob owns.
\n" ); document.write( "You are told sam has J-24. \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "You are also told that $\"%28J-4%29+=+1.5%28sam%29\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"J-4+=+1.5%28J-24%29\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"J-4+=+1.5J+-+36\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"32+=+0.5J\"$
\n" ); document.write( " $\"64+=+J\"$ \r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "jacob owns 64 CDs. sam owns 64-24 = 40\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "together they own 104 CDs
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