How did the asian rubber merchants put the brazilians out of business

They took the Rubber tree seeds, and plant them on their country. After that, they started to produce latex with greater efficiency and productivity.

Explanation:

Amazon was already losing the primacy of the rubber production monopoly, because the rubber planted by the English in Malaysia, Ceylon and tropical Africa during the period of increasing appreciation of the rubber on the international scene, with seeds from the Amazon itself. Consequently, with lower costs and lower final price, which made them take control of the world trade of the product, surpassing the Brazilian one.

in his book, the riddle of the rosetta stone, james giblin talks about how there was a young british polymath and physician named thomas young who made a lot of advances on the deciphering of the rosetta stone. he says that even though young made a lot of mistakes because he was working under false assumptions, he also made huge contributions like deciphering three out of the seven symbols (more than anyone else before him). young published his findings and continued his good work but he wasn't able to progress much further due to some unfavorable situations, he still laid the basis for many other scholars and of course for the man who has been generally known to have deciphered it, jean-françois champollion

the perimeter of a triangle is 69 cm. side a is 5 cm shorter than side b. side c is twice as long as side a. find the length of each side. i need to know how to do it in 2 equations.  

equations:

a = b-5

c = 2a

a + b + c = 69