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Here we celebrate the power of algebra as a powerful way of finding unknown quantities by naming them, of expressing infinitely many relationships and connections clearly and succinctly, and of uncovering pattern and structure.
Möbius decorating. Your dorm decides to decorate for Homecoming by creating oodles and oodles of colorful Möbius bands to hang from the light fixtures in the lounge. You create a total of 300 Möbius bands. Twenty percent are purple, 35% are gold, 25% are green, and the rest are evenly divided between red and blue. Find the number of Môbius bands of each color.
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