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A gardener is planting two types of trees:

Type A is three feet tall and grows at a rate of 15 inches per year.
Type B is four feet tall and grows at a rate of 10 inches per year.
Algebraically determine exactly how many years it will take for these trees to be the same height.
somebody please help, i forgot how to solve this.

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it would take 6 years
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User Ihar Sadounikau
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It would take 6 years to equal the same amount, the equation would look like this

10x+4=15x+3
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User Thorn
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