document.write( "Question 1181862: Three software applications are priced as follows. 1.spreadsheet=$160 2.Database=$185 3.Word processing=$270. Spreadsheet and Database sold in equal numbers, but 35 more Word processing applications were sold than the other two combined. If the three applications generated sales of $80,250, how many Spreadsheets were sold \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "Let x be the number of spreadsheet apps,  the same as the number of database apps.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then the number of the Word processing apps sold was  (2x + 35).\r\n" );
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document.write( "Now you write this \"money equation\" (revenue equation)\r\n" );
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document.write( "    160x + 185x + 270*(2x+35) = 80250   dollars.\r\n" );
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document.write( "Simplify and find x\r\n" );
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document.write( "    160x + 185x + 540x = 80250 - 270*35\r\n" );
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document.write( "           885x        =      70800\r\n" );
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document.write( "              x        = 70800/885 = 80.\r\n" );
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document.write( "ANSWER.  80 spreadsheet apps were sold.\r\n" );
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