document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1126184>Question 1126184</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Hello! I was wondering if I can have some help on this question here\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "  Salim wants to download a certain number of his favourite tunes using some money he has saved doing odd jobs. At downloads for U, they charge $1.00 per download. He would need to save $17.00 more than he already has in order to download all he wants. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "   At a competing site, Music bytes, they only charge $0.80 per download. he would have $5.00 left from his savings of he downloads all he wants. How many downloads does Salim want?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "I’m pretty sure this is a problem where you would use y=mx+b such as 17+1.00x=y but I’m not entirely sure, some direction would be nice. Thank you for your time! </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "Let's look at the equation you show: y = 1.00x+17.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "The 1.00 is the cost per download at the first site; so 1.00x is the cost of downloading x tunes from that site.  Then, since the amount of money Salim would need to download all his tunes from that site is $17 more than what he has, 1.00x+17 is the amount of money he would need to download all his tunes from that site.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "So the equation you show is a good one for showing an expression for the amount of money Salim has.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "Now do the same thing for the other site.  At $0.80 per download from the other site, the amount of money he has is $5.00 MORE than what he needs.  Use those numbers to make another equation in the form y = mx+b for the amount of money he has.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "Then you will have two different expressions for the amount of money Salim has.  Write and solve the equation that says those two expressions are equal to each other. </SPAN>\n" );
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