Given:
Capacity of jet plane = 200,000 liters of fuel
Fuel used during flight = 130,000 liters
To find:
The percentage of the fuel capacity it uses on this flight.
Solution:
According to the question, we need to find 130,000 is what percent of 200,000.
Therefore, the jet plane uses 65 percent of fuel capacity during flight.
Multiply the equation:
The solution set is the same, because multiplying both sides of an equation by a non-zero number doesn't change the solution set. In fact, if you rewrite the equation as
Multiplying this by 3 (or whatever number, for all it matters) gives
Now, a product is zero if and only if at least one of the factor is zero. So, either or
Since the first is clearly impossible, the second one must be true, which is the original equation.