A Conversation for Diophantine Equations
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clzoomer- a bit woobly Started conversation Mar 11, 2003
"A bag of sugar weighs 5 pounds. A sack of oranges weighs 17 pounds. A box contains some sacks of oranges and some bags of sugar. The total weight of the box's contents is 103 pounds. What's in the box?"
Well for all we know it could have one bag of sugar, a sack of oranges, and some lead weights!
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Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged Posted Mar 11, 2003
103 = 5x + 17y + k
where k is any number to make things all up.
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clzoomer- a bit woobly Posted Mar 11, 2003
My point was that the question was ambiguous by not using exclusivity.
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Spelugx the Beige, Wizard, Perl, Thaumatologically Challenged Posted Mar 11, 2003
One reason to write things in mathematical language then, rather than in English. Got you're point though, I was just rephrasing.
spelugx -- my first edited article as subeditor! 
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clzoomer- a bit woobly Posted Mar 11, 2003
Just a little smiley party.
Always good for a congratulations.
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