document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1176545>Question 1176545</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> in the 2016 olympics, china, us, and grrst britain won a combined total of 258 medals. china won 51 fewer medals than the us while great britain won 54 fewer than the us. how mnah medals did each country win </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "The given information compares the numbers of medals for both Great Britain and China to the number for the US, so the problem is probably easiest to set up using x as the number of medals won by the US.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "x = # won by the US<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x-51 = # won by China<BR>\n" );
document.write( "x-54 = # won by Great Britain<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "Use those expressions to write and solve an equation that says the total number of medals won by those three countries was 258.<br><BR>\n" );
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