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3. There are twice as many pencils in Julius' pencil box than in Lucky's. Julius attempts to write this relationship as an equation which he believes is correct. He writes: If $J$ = the number of Julius' pencils and $L$ = the number of Lucky's pencils, then $2J = L$. How would you convince Julius that his equation is incorrect?

          3. There are twice as many pencils in Julius' pencil
box than in Lucky's. Julius attempts to write this
relationship as an equation which he believes
is correct. He writes: If $J$ = the number of Julius'
pencils and $L$ = the number of Lucky's pencils,
then $2J = L$.
How would you convince Julius that his
equation is incorrect?

3. There are twice as many pencils in Julius' pencil
box than in Lucky's. Julius attempts to write this
relationship as an equation which he believes
is correct. He writes: If J = the number of Julius'
pencils and L = the number of Lucky's pencils,
then 2J = L.
How would you convince Julius that his
equation is incorrect?

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Elementary and Intermediate Algebra

Alan S. Tussy, R. David Gustafson 5th Edition

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This means that if Lucky has 1 pencil, Julius has 2. If Lucky has 2 pencils, Julius has 4, and so on. Now, let's look at the equation Julius wrote: 2x = y. In this equation, x represents the number of Julius' pencils and y represents the number of Lucky's Show more…

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There are twice as many pencils in Julius' pencil box than in Lucky's. Julius attempts to write this relationship as an equation which he believes is correct: He writes: If x = the number of Julius' pencils and y = the number of Lucky's pencils, then 2x = y. How would you convince Julius that his equation is incorrect?