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document.write( "Please help me.  I cannot comeup with an example.  I am currently not working, but used to be an accountant.  Your help is mosly appreciated.  Thank you again </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Find an example from your line of work or daily life that can be expressed as a linear equation with two variables. Graph this equation.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Answer:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Example.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Ann's father's age is 7 years more than 3 times Ann's age. Express this statement an a linear equation and also graph the equation.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Solution: \r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Suppose Ann's age = x years.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Suppose Ann's father's age = y years.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Three times Ann's age = 3x\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "7 years more than  3 times Ann's age = 3x + 7\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Then we can write,  y = 3x + 7, which is a linear equation in two variables.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "To graph the equation, put some arbitrary values for x and then find out the corresponding values of y as follows.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "When, x = 1, y = 3*1 + 7 = 10\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "When, x = 0, y = 3*0 + 7 = 7\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "When, x = 2, y = 3*2 + 7 = 13\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "When, x = -1, y = 3*-1 + 7 = 4\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "and so on.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Now plot these points on a graph paper.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Then the graph will come likes this....\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Hope you found the explanation useful.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Regards.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Praseena.\r<BR>\n" );
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