document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1116657>Question 1116657</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> At a scrapbooking party, guests brought a certain number of photographs to use based on how many pages they will be assembling. Sharon plans to assemble three small pages and seven large pages and brought a total of 26 photographs to use. Whitney brought 16 photographs which is enough to assemble three small pages and two large pages assuming that the number of photographs on a page remains constant how many photographs fit on a small page and a large page? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "guests brought a certain number of photographs to use based on how many pages they will be assembling. <BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Sharon plans to assemble three small pages and seven large pages and brought a total of 26 photographs to use. <BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Whitney brought 16 photographs which is enough to assemble three small pages and two large pages <BR>\n" );
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document.write( "...assuming that the number of photographs on a page remains constant how many photographs fit on a small page and a large page?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "That changes the description.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "What you really want to do is this:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Try making x and y,  ratio of photos to pages for small page (x) and for large page (y).  With this \"assumption\" and variables, form a system\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "You can eliminate the 3x to first find y; and use this y value to find x.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=y=2 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"y=2\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >------photographs on a large page\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=x=4 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"x=4\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >-------photographs on a small page\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Those seem the reverse of what would be expected.  Fewer on large page than on small page.   </SPAN>\n" );
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