document.write( "Question 1192360: James wrote several positive numbers smaller than 7 on a piece of paper. Jia then crossed out all of James's numbers and replaced each of them with their difference from 7. The sum of James' numbers was 22. The sum of Jia's numbers is 34. How many numbers did James write down? \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "Let first sum be    and  the second sum be  .\r\n" );
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document.write( "Then   +   is  7 times n, where n is the number of addends in each sum.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So, the number of addends is   =  = 8.\r\n" );
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document.write( "ANSWER.  James wrote down 8 numbers.\r\n" );
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