document.write( "Question 1126258: The sum of three numbers is -4. The second number decreased by the third is equal to the first. The sum of the first and the second number is -5. Find the numbers.
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\n" ); document.write( "(1)sum of three is -4.
\n" ); document.write( "(2)the second number times 2/3 equals the first.
\n" ); document.write( "(3)sum of the first two is -5.\r
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "2.What we want?
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "3.Design approach
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\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "4.Time to work!
\n" ); document.write( "f=first number s=second one t=third one
\n" ); document.write( "t=(-4)-(-5)=1.
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