document.write( "Question 1100280: The total number of restaurant-purchased meals that the average person will eat in a restaurant, in a car, or at home in a year is 141. The total number of these meals eaten in a car or at home exceeds the number eaten in a restaurant by 11. Ten more restaurant-purchased meals will be eaten in a restaurant than at home. Find the number of restaurant-purchased meals eaten in a restaurant, the number eaten in a car, and the number eaten at home.\r
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Algebra.Com's Answer #714778 by ikleyn(52794)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! . \n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( "From the condition you have these two equations\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "Home + Car + Restaurant = 141 (1)\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "(Home + Car) - Restaurant = 11 (2) (\"The total number of meals eaten in a car or at home exceeds the number eaten in a restaurant by 11. \")\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "---------------------------------------Subtract eq(2) from eq(1). You will get\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( "2*Restaurant = 141 - 11 = 130 ==========> Restaurant =\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Answer. Home = 55, Restaurant = 65, Car = 21.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "============================= \n" ); document.write( "Dear turor @richwmiller,\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "In response to your question,\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " I am not obliged to report you\r\n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "But if you wish, I can continue in more calm tone:\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( " I did it because I feel that my addition and contribution will be useful.\r\n" ); document.write( "\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Also, since\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( " - I am quite old and experienced;\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( " - I have quite good (if not to say \"perfect\") mathematical education;\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( " - I learned from the best teachers, from the best textbooks, from the best books-collections of mathematical school problems, \r\n" ); document.write( " advanced problems, Olympiad level problems;\r\n" ); document.write( "\r\n" ); document.write( " - I know the school math subjects along and accross;\r\n" ); document.write( "\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "with all of this and because of all of it, I am able to make my decisions on my own,\r \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "without asking your permission and even without asking your opinion, and even in opposite to your opinion.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Also, I am too good tutor (as you said) to tolerate yours invectives against me calling my posts and solutions \"trivial\".\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Sincerely . . . \r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |