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Problem Solving (PS) | Re: The number of stamps that Kaye and Alberto had were in the

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OreoShake wrote:

Bunuel, could you explain whats wrong with the the following method?

x/y =3/5. x-10/y+10 = 7/5. Hence on solving we get x as 50 and y as 30, which clearly does not tell us the answer. Can you please provide some conceptual clarity?


Hi, there are a couple of things to note here.

I'm assuming that you assigned the variables x and y as: Alberto = x, Kaye = y. First off, when two things are in a ratio they must be represented using a common variable, if there were no relationship mentioned, for
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