document.write( "Question 1157101: A man can buy a number of shirts with £720. If each shirt is £2 cheaper, he can buy 4 more shirts. How many did he buy? \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "Let n be the number of the shirts under the question.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then you have this equation for n\r\n" );
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document.write( "     -  = 4.\r\n" );
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document.write( "(price of one shirt in the hypothetical scenario MINUS price of one sheet in real scenario).\r\n" );
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document.write( "Simplify by dividing  both sides by 4\r\n" );
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document.write( "     -  = 1.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Reduce to the standard quadratic equation form and get the answer n = 20.\r\n" );
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