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document.write( "                          FIRST NUMBER + SECOND NUMBER \r\n" );
document.write( "AVERAGE OF TWO NUMBERS = ------------------------------\r\n" );
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document.write( "AVERAGE OF TWO NUMBERS = \r\n" );
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document.write( "Write the 2 on the bottome as  so everything\r\n" );
document.write( "will be a fraction:\r\n" );
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document.write( "Put parentheses around all terms top and bottom:\r\n" );
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document.write( "The LCD of all three denominators 3,5,and 1 is 15,\r\n" );
document.write( "so multiply every term on top and bottom by 15, written\r\n" );
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document.write( "Cancel the 3 into the 15 in the first term on top.\r\n" );
document.write( "Cancel the 5 into the 15, getting 3 in the second term on top.\r\n" );
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document.write( "AVERAGE OF TWO NUMBERS =  or\r\n" );
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