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\n" ); document.write( "The information in the first two sentences is enough to determine how many stamps each of them has.
\n" ); document.write( "But the question shown in the third sentence is written so badly that we have no idea what the answer is to the question they were trying to ask.
\n" ); document.write( "So we can easily find how many stamps each of them has; but, since we don't know what the question is, we can't answer it.
\n" ); document.write( "Jay had 8/9 as many stamps as Mel.
\n" ); document.write( "J:M = 8:9
\n" ); document.write( "Jay had 6/11 as many stamps as Lynn.
\n" ); document.write( "J:L = 6:11
\n" ); document.write( "Rewrite both of those ratios as equivalent ratios, with the same number for Jay in both ratios.
\n" ); document.write( "J:M = 24:27
\n" ); document.write( "J:L = 24:44
\n" ); document.write( "So now J:M:L = 24:27:44
\n" ); document.write( "Let 24x = # of stamps Jay had
\n" ); document.write( "then 27x = # Mel had
\n" ); document.write( "and 44x = # Lynn had
\n" ); document.write( "The total number of stamps was 760:
\n" ); document.write( "24x+27x+44x = 760
\n" ); document.write( "95x = 760
\n" ); document.write( "x = 760/95 = 8
\n" ); document.write( "# of stamps Jay had: 24x = 24(8) = 192
\n" ); document.write( "# of stamps Mel had: 27x = 27(8) = 216
\n" ); document.write( "# of stamps Lynn had: 44x = 44(8) = 352
\n" ); document.write( "That's as far as we can go, because we don't know what the question is that we are supposed to answer....
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