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Recalling the Total-Value Model for Postage Inventory

In your role as an office manager, you are tasked with reconstructing a lost receipt for a postage purchase using the total-value model. The only details you remember are that the total cost was 14.74 dollars for 49-cent and 20-cent stamps, and the number of 49-cent stamps was four less than three times the number of 20-cent stamps. From memory, outline the 'Name' and 'Translate' steps of the problem-solving strategy for this specific scenario. State the specific variable definitions and write the exact equation used to model this purchase.

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