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Posted 2003-11-01, 05:03 PM in reply to
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"Solve for X"
4 is right.
I don't know what on earth you did with #1, but here's some basic hints for it:
5x(75x+32y)=5xy
375x^2+160xy-5xy=0
x(375x+155y)=0
So it's a second-degree equation, and one x has to equal 0, but see if you can figure out what the other one equals.
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