Jolene's answer to Jessica's Secondary 3 A Maths Singapore question.

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Jolene
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I assume that the question is the first line of the post and you're supposed to find p and q.

You made a careless mistake when you let x=1, you sld have the eqn:
3(1) + p + q + 8 = 5(1)+6