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\n" ); document.write( "I agree with the other two tutors that your presentation of the problem is extremely poor.
\n" ); document.write( "To start with, a and A, or x and X, can mean different things in the same problem. Don't mix lower and upper case letters when talking about the same thing.
\n" ); document.write( "Then your statement of the problem doesn't say that ABCD (not \"a b c d\") is a rectangle. The topic you chose for presenting your problem was \"Rectangles\", so I will assume it is; but your statement of the problem should say so.
\n" ); document.write( "So then we know that, since opposite sides of a rectangle have the same length,
\n" ); document.write( "2y+1 = 7x-3
\n" ); document.write( "and
\n" ); document.write( "y+1 = 3x
\n" ); document.write( "Then the problem tells us to find the values of x and y (not \"X and Y\").
\n" ); document.write( "But here we run into another difficulty with the problem as you present it: the values of x and y turn out to be negative numbers, which makes no sense for the dimensions of a rectangle.
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