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document.write( "As the problem is worded, printed, posted and presented, it is FATALLY INCOMPLETE.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "To be complete, it MUST say if the account is simple interest or a compound interest.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "is unfamiliar with standard formulations of this type of problems.\r<BR>\n" );
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