document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=1176639>Question 1176639</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Jérémy passes a backpack, but he wants to buy a bigger one, with a capacity of 45 to 55 L. he hesitates between two models.  The capacity of the model A is 2 times greater than that of the backpack it already has. As for the model B, it can hold 15 L more than its walking backpack. If we added 18L to the capacity of the  model A and 28 L to the capacity of model B, both models would have exactly the same capacity, which of the two models should jérémy choose? </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "I can't imagine that you could POSSIBLY have looked at your post before you posted it....<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "And I can't imagine, with the way the problem is stated, that the other tutor purported to understand the given information....<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "Perhaps with the person's name being Jérémy, the original problem was in Hungarian and was translated poorly.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "Or perhaps the problem was dictated orally and the voice recognition program did a poor job of translating it into words....<br><BR>\n" );
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document.write( "\"Jérémy passes a backpack, but he wants to buy a bigger one...\"<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "From the context, he has a backpack but want to get a bigger one; maybe \"passes\" is supposed to be \"possesses\"?<br><BR>\n" );
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document.write( "\"The capacity of the model A is 2 times greater than that of the backpack it already has.\"<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "The \"it\" to replace \"Jérémy\" suggests that maybe the problem was indeed translated poorly from its original language.<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "And even disregarding the other sloppy language, there is a fatal flaw in the statement of the problem in this sentence.  Saying that the capacity of model A is \"2 times greater than...\" is probably intended to mean 2 times AS GREAT AS; but 2 times GREATER THAN x means x, plus 2 more times x, which is 3x, or 3 times AS GREAT.  So we don't know whether that statement is really supposed to mean the capacity if 2 times as great or 3 times as great.<br><BR>\n" );
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document.write( "\"As for the model B, it can hold 15 L more than its walking backpack.\"<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "\"its walking backpack\"???!<br><BR>\n" );
document.write( "There is that \"it\" again that presumably has replaced \"Jérémy\"; but what on earth is a walking backpack?<br><BR>\n" );
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document.write( "For goodness sake, take the time to make your posts in such a way that we know what the question is.  You are wasting our time (and yours) by posting garbage like this.<br><BR>\n" );
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