Here’s how to solve:
3x-15+-9
3x-24
No. Mike wrote the ratio as the amount of change to the new amount. He should have used the ratio of the amount of change to the original amount, which is 55
55/275
, or 20%.
Can you put picture, it is not clear
The answer is 12. I got it by dividing 2/3 into 8. I used keep change flip. First I made 8 a fraction by putting one as it's denominator. Then I changed division to multiplication. After that, I flipped the fraction from 2/3 to 3/2. Then I multiplied across. My answer was 24/2. I simplified and got my final answer of 12.