document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=20185>Question 20185</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Dear Tutor,\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "    For this problem I came up with the answer of 1248.  I took 780 and divided it by 5/8.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "2. 5/8 of the vehicles in the parking lot are cars.  The rest are vans and trucks.  If <BR>\n" );
document.write( "there are 780 cars in the lot, how many total vehicles are in the lot?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "     For this problem I took 1600 and divided it by 2 and multiply it by 7.<BR>\n" );
document.write( " 3. A computer store sells seven times as many printers as fax machines.  If sales for the <BR>\n" );
document.write( "month totaled 1,600 pieces, how many printers were sold?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Am I doing solving these problems right.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Thank you, <BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Your method and solution on the first problem are correct.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The second problem is not correct.  If you divide 1600 by 2 and then multiply by 7, you get 5600.  This is too high because only 1600 units were sold.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Let x = the number of fax machines sold\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Now we can use this variable to write an expression for the number of printers sold.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "7*x = the number of printers sold.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The total number of fax machines and printers sold is 1600.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "x + 7*x = 1600\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "8*x = 1600\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "x = 1600/8 = 200\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The number of printers sold is 7 times this amount.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "7*200 = 1400\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "There were 1,400 printers sold.\r<BR>\n" );
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