Sorry Paul you wanted the equation rather than the answer 8x = 5(26-x) GerryC To: caut at ptg.org From: pwilliams4 at unlnotes.unl.edu Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2010 18:48:09 -0500 Subject: [CAUT] Brain fart on algebra: OT Hi all, Are you as smart as an 8th grader? I pay my son 8 cents for every problem he gets correctly solved and fine him 5 cents for each incorrect solution. At the end of 26 problems, neither owes anything to the other. How many problems did the boy solve correctly? What the algebraic solution here? Paul -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ptg.org/pipermail/caut.php/attachments/20100921/36c05cd4/attachment.htm>
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