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My father taught me a method that I call, 'throwing some thing over the wall'. There is a sample equation for the first picture that shows you how it works. It's a great way to help isolate the variable and I hope that it works for you. The second picture contains the answers I got through the use of this method. I'm sorry for the messy handwriting; I was on a bus.
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Given that a kitten weighs four whole pounds and 2/3 of a fifth pound.
In this type of problem it is always best to break the given statement into smaller pieces then writing expression for each piece will be more easy.
"fifth" means 1/5.
so 2/3 of a fifth means product of 2/3 and 1/5 which is
Now total weight is given by
4 whole pounds and 2/3 of a fifth
Hence required fraction for the answer is .