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Answer:
Total amount Silas and Raja has at first = $252
Step-by-step explanation:
Let,
Amount Silas had = x
Amount Raja had = y
According to given statement;
x = 3y Eqn 1
x-84 = y+42 Eqn 2
Putting value of x from Eqn 1 in Eqn 2
3y - 84 = y+42
3y-y = 42+84
2y = 126
Dividing both sides by 2
Putting y = 63 in Eqn 1
x = 63(3)
x = 189
Total amount they had = 189 + 63 = $252
Hence,
Total amount Silas and Raja has at first = $252
Answer: Option #4: the 0.2 could be changed to 2.
Explanation:
The table is designed to make the concept of percentages more understandable. The table first allocates the total amount of 70 in terms of its "fifths," or 20% parts. Then it expresses these parts in the last row of the table, showing that 20% of 70 is 14 and all the five parts sum up to 70 again.
Now, Mikel is supposed to express 40% of the amount. So she writes (incorrectly): 0.2 * 14. This statement needs to be changed to 2 * 14 (two times 14 = 28), to correspond to 2 times 20%, or 40% of 70.
This is reflected in the last (fourth) option "The 0.2 in the expression could be changed to 2."
Option #3 is incorrect because changing 14 to 70, will result in an incorrect number (2.8).
Options 1 and 2 are similarly incorrect (as can be easily verified)
Rounded answer is 7.66
Regular answer is 7.65966
