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document.write( "I'd translate it in this way:\r\n" );
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document.write( "n - (-8) = 3n,   or, which is the same, as\r\n" );
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document.write( "n + 8 = 3n.\r\n" );
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document.write( "The equation |n-8| = 3n of the other tutor is absolutely wrong.\r\n" );
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