document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=20182>Question 20182</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Dear Tutors,\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "    I think the answer is (B).  I divided 360 by 2, then multiply 180 by 2.  Is that how you solve this problem.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "1.  Last month a store sold 4 times as many tapes as CDs.  If the total quantity of these <BR>\n" );
document.write( "two items sold was 360, how many tapes did the store sell?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "a. 288<BR>\n" );
document.write( "b. 360<BR>\n" );
document.write( "c. 90<BR>\n" );
document.write( "d. 20\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Thank you,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Confused </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "If you think the number of tapes sold is 360, then you didn't understand the total problem.  Both the number of tapes and CDs equals 360.  The problem tells us that.  So, if you choose 360 for the number of tapes, then that doesn't leave anything left over for the number of CDs.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Let x = the number of CDs sold\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Then 4*x = the number of tapes sold\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The given information tells us that:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "x + 4*x = 360\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "5*x = 360\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "x = 360/5\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "x = 72\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "There were 72 CDs sold, so 4*72 is the number of tapes sold.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "4*72 = 288\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The correct answer is \"a\".\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "~ Mark\r<BR>\n" );
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