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by f2001290 » Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:58 am
Got the solution -- I was OVER-THINKING to solve this easy one ..
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by thumpin_termis » Thu Jun 07, 2007 9:47 am
How did you do it?
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by jayhawk2001 » Thu Jun 07, 2007 8:59 pm
Pure rearranging of terms should help.

z = (x+y) / 2 ---- first eqn

z + x = 2w
x-w = w-z
x-w = w- (x+y)/2
x-w = 1/2(w-x) + 1/2(w-y)
3/2(x-w) = 1/2(w-y)
(x-w) / (w-y) = 1/3
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