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In 2009, there were 14,100 students at college A, with a projected enrollment increase of 1500 students per year. In the same year, there were 41,700 students at college B, with a projected enrollment decline of 800 students per year. In which year will the colleges have the same enrollment? What will be the enrollment in each college at that time?
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Recall: Strategy for Solving Word Problems (page 103).
Step 1: state in your own words what the problem is looking for. Let represent an unknown quantity in question. Step 2: if needed, express additional unknown quantities in terms of . Step 3: write an equation that represents the word problem. Step 4: solve the equation for the variable to answer the problem in question. Step 5: check the solution in the original wording of the problem.
Hence, start with step 1: state in your own words what the problem is looking for. Let represent an unknown quantity in question.
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