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In November 2003, the Four Companies with the Largest Number χ\chi

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In November 2003, the four companies with the largest number of home Internet users in the US were Microsoft, Time Warner, Yahoo, and Google, with a combined audience of 274 million users. Taking χ\chi to be the Microsoft audience in millions, yy the Time Warner audience in millions, ZZ the Yahoo audience in millions, and uu the Google audience in millions, it was observed that
zu=3(xy) +6x+y=56+z+uxy+zu=50\begin{array} { l } z - u = 3 ( x - y ) + 6 \\x + y = 56 + z + u \\x - y + z - u = 50\end{array}

How large was the audience of each of the four companies in November, 2003 (All amounts in millions.)


A) Microsoft: 88
Time Warner: 77
Yahoo: 73
Google: 35

B) Microsoft: 88
Time Warner: 77
Yahoo: 74
Google: 34

C) Microsoft: 88
Time Warner: 77
Yahoo: 74
Google: 35

D) Microsoft: 88
Time Warner: 78
Yahoo: 74
Google: 35

E) Microsoft: 89
Time Warner: 77
Yahoo: 74
Google: 35

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