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To find x, you would need to use the inverse of subtraction (addition) and inverse of division (multiplication), since you'd need to isolate x to one side of the equation to set x equal to a number.
Hope this helps!
Since the ratio is 3:4, and 12/4 is 3 than you do 3x3 and get 9 so the answer is 9:12 or 9 boys and 12 girls. To check your answer, you can do 3/4 (for 3:4) and that is 0.75. If you do that with 9:12 you also get 0.75.
The reciprocal of 3/5 is 5/3.
To get the reciprocal of a fraction, just turn it upside down.
A fraction has a numerator, top number, and a denominator, bottom number.
To get the reciprocal of a fraction, just swap over the numerator and denominator.
If whole numbers, to get the reciprocal of whole number, just divide the whole number by 1 to make it into a fraction, then get the reciprocal of that fraction.
To find the slant height we must take apart the pyramid first. Let us cut it in half. There we can easily see that the slant height is really just the hypotenuse of the triangle formed by half the base and the altitude.
Half the base length would be 6 cm.
Using the Pythagorean therom:
a² + b² = c²
6² + 8² = c²
36 + 64 = c²
100 = c²
c = 10
The slant height should be 10 cm. Hope this helps!