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Mervin tells Aquilla that he has a bag with very small rocks in it.
She asks how many, and he says that if you add one hundred million
very small rocks to the bag, it will contain 36 more very small rocks
than the number in ten thousand of the bags minus five times the
number in the bag. How many very small rocks are in Mervin’s bag?

 Dec 17, 2016
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Let N  be the number of rocks in the bag....and we have that

 

N + 100,000,000   - 36  = 10,000N  - 5N   simplify

 

N + 100,000,000 - 36  =  9995N

 

N + 99,999,964  =  9995N

 

99,999,964  = 9994N     divide both sides by 9994

 

10,006 = N   = the number of small rocks in Melvin's bag

 

 

cool cool cool

 Dec 17, 2016

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