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Can you split 34 into 2 parts such that 4/7 of one part is equal to 2/5 of the other?
Answer
Let X and Y be the two parts.Then solving the equations
X+Y=34 and
(4/7)X=(2/5)Y,
we get X=14 and Y=20.
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