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Box o’ knots (H). There is a box of knotted bunches of string in your math instructor’s classroom. The number of trefoil knots in the box is x and the number of figure-eight knots is y. You take all the knots out of the box and display them so each looks like the trefoil or figure-eight knot illustrated in Mindscape 20. If there are a total of 21 knots and 74 crossings, how many knots are there of each type?
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