document.write( "Question 1160146: At the end of the day, a pharmacist counted and found she has 4/3 as many prescriptions for antibiotics as she did for cough medicines. She had 84 prescriptions for the two types of medicine. How many prescriptions did she have for cough medicine?
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document.write( "Let x = # of C-prescriptions.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then the number of A-prescriptions is  .\r\n" );
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document.write( "From the condition, you have this equation\r\n" );
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document.write( "    x +  = 84.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Simplify and solve\r\n" );
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document.write( "     = 84\r\n" );
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document.write( "    x =  = 3*12 = 36.\r\n" );
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document.write( "ANSWER.  36 C-prescriptions and  = 4*12 = 48 A-prescriptions.\r\n" );
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