document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1174888>Question 1174888</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Kathy and Mark Smith believe investing in their retirement is critical. Kathy began investing 20% of each paycheck in a retirement account when she was 20 years old. She has saved four times more than Mark who began saving when he was 35. If their total retirement savings equals $1,450,000, how much are Kathy’s and Mark's investments worth?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Banana Republic at the Orlando, Florida, outlet store sells casual jeans for $40 and dress jeans for $60. If customers bought 5 times more casual than dress jeans and last month’s sales totaled $6,500, how many of each type of jeans were sold?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Basic rule of the forum: ONE question per post.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "Neither of the problems you posted can be solved with certainty, because poor language is used.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "Specifically, the phrases \"4 times more than...\" in your first problem and \"5 times more than...\" in your second problem are very probably misused.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "Unfortunately, in sloppy everyday usage, \"4 times more than\" and \"4 times as much as\" are used to mean the same thing.  But, grammatically, \"4 times as much as 10\" is 4*10 = 40, whereas \"4 times more than 10\" is 10, plus 4*10, or 10+40=50.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "I don't doubt for a moment that these problems are exactly as they were given to you, so it's not your fault....<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "But, as stated, we don't know what the real information is, so we can't solve the problems.<br><BR>\n" );
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