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Chapter 9 Linear Relations
Cryptic Coffee


The Code and Cypher Club meets at a different café each month. The coded location for this month’s meeting is CWAEU WQWQ. To encode the name of the café, the president of the club used the relation y = 2x – 1, where x is a number that represents a letter in the alphabet, and y is a number that represents the coded letter. What is the name of the café?



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