document.write( "Question 1030410: Can any of u help me to solve this problem
\n" ); document.write( "I borrowed $1000 from a frend, but I lost it the next min. So I borrowed $500 frm another frend. From tht $500, I bought $300 sweets. With the balance $200 I paid back each $100 to the frends I borrowed frm. So I owe $900 +$400 = $1300. Well with $1300 add the sweet amt of $300 will be $1600. I only borrowed $1500 frm my both frends. Then where did the $100 came frm. \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #645267 by Edwin McCravy(20060)\"\" \"About 
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document.write( "I'll rewrite your problem with better grammar and punctuation.\r\n" );
document.write( "I'll also take two zeros off the end of your numbers to make\r\n" );
document.write( "it more realistic.  It's more realistic to have borrowed ten \r\n" );
document.write( "dollars and five dollars than to have borrowed one thousand\r\n" );
document.write( "dollars and five hundred dollars. After all, nobody buys three\r\n" );
document.write( "hundred dollars worth of sweets!\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "I borrowed $10 from a friend, but I lost it. So I borrowed $5
\n" ); document.write( "from another friend. From that $5, I bought $3 worth of sweets.
\n" ); document.write( "With the remaining $2, I paid each friend back $1. So I owe
\n" ); document.write( "$9 +$4 = $13.
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document.write( "That should be the end of the story.  You borrowed $15 and paid \r\n" );
document.write( "back $2.  So you owe $13. $9 to the first friend and $4 to the\r\n" );
document.write( "second friend.  The $13 that you owe is $10 that you lost and $3\r\n" );
document.write( "that you spent for sweets.  But then the story continues with a \r\n" );
document.write( "mistake:\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "Well with $13, add the $3 I spent for sweets will be $16.
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document.write( "No, no! That's bad math to add that!  Add the $2 you paid them \r\n" );
document.write( "back and get $15.  What you owe for the sweets is part of the\r\n" );
document.write( "$13 that you owe.  It is wrong to add that $3 to the $13 that\r\n" );
document.write( "already includes it!  Also you are ignoring the $2 that you\r\n" );
document.write( "paid back.  So your mistake was that instead of adding the $2 \r\n" );
document.write( "you still owe to the $13 and get the $15 that you borrowed, you \r\n" );
document.write( "wrongly added $3 again which is part of the $13, and got $16, \r\n" );
document.write( "and ignored the $2 you paid back.\r\n" );
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\n" ); document.write( "So I owe $9 +$4 = $13. Well with $13 add the amount for the
\n" ); document.write( "sweets of $3 and get $16. I only borrowed $15 from my friends.
\n" ); document.write( "Where did the extra $1 come from?
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document.write( "What tricks you is the fact that you think you have added in the\r\n" );
document.write( "$2, but you haven't, you have subtracted it instead.  That's where \r\n" );
document.write( "the $13 came from, $15-$2.  What else tricks you is that you think \r\n" );
document.write( "you haven't included the $3 you spent for sweets.  That's because \r\n" );
document.write( "you didn't say anything about the sweets when you did your bad \r\n" );
document.write( "math, but it was already included in the $13 that you still owe, \r\n" );
document.write( "$10 for what you lost and $3 for the sweets.  So it makes no sense\r\n" );
document.write( "to add the $3 for sweets again to the $13 that contains it!\r\n" );
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document.write( "Edwin

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