document.write( "Question 1205139: \" I am a three-digit number. My second digit is 4 times bigger than the third digit. My first digit is 3 less than my second digit. What number am I...? \" \n" ); document.write( "
Algebra.Com's Answer #841973 by AnlytcPhil(1806)\"\" \"About 
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document.write( "Let's paraphrase Greenestamps' words:\r\n" );
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document.write( "4 times AS SMALL AS means the number is 4 times less than what it was before --\r\n" );
document.write( "i.e., it is 400% as big as it was.\r\n" );
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document.write( "4 times SMALLER THAN means it has SHRUNK BY 400%, so now it is 500% as small as\r\n" );
document.write( "it was.\r\n" );
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document.write( "So 4 times SMALLER THAN means 5 times AS SMALL AS; if the larger number is x,\r\n" );
document.write( "then the smaller number is \"expr%281%2F5%29x\", not \"expr%281%2F4%29x\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "So if the stated problem had been:\r\n" );
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document.write( "\" I am a three-digit number. My second digit is 4 times SMALLER than the third\r\n" );
document.write( "digit. My first digit is 3 less than my second digit. What number am I...? \" \r\n" );
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document.write( "No, that won't work, since we can't have \"negative digits\". We have to change\r\n" );
document.write( "\"less\" to \"MORE\".\r\n" );
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document.write( "\" I am a three-digit number. My second digit is 4 times SMALLER than the third\r\n" );
document.write( "digit. My first digit is 3 MORE than my second digit. What number am I...? \" \r\n" );
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document.write( "\" I am a three-digit number. \r\n" );
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document.write( "My second digit is 4 times SMALLER than the third digit. \r\n" );
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document.write( "_ 1 5\r\n" );
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document.write( "My first digit is 3 MORE than my second digit. \r\n" );
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document.write( "4 1 5 \r\n" );
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document.write( "What number am I...? \"\r\n" );
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document.write( "415\r\n" );
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document.write( "Merry Christmas, TOOTERS! J.  \r\n" );
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document.write( "Edwin, aka Analytic Phil!
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