A single box of thumb tacks weighed 3 1/2 ounces. If a teacher had 4 1/7 boxes how much would their combined weight be ?
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To get the answer, you need to think of it like a see-saw.
Both sides must equal the same relative to 33.5. For example, 32 is 1.5 away from 33.5 so you could say you have 1.5*4 (because theres 4 tubes with 32 sweets). If you were to do this for the whole table, it would look something like this:
This simplifies to:
This method can sometimes be inefficient depending on how many values but is probably the simplest way to solve this problem.
hope this helps :)
(sorry the other way is kinda hard to explain possibly ask your teacher tomorrow)
Both sides must equal the same relative to 33.5. For example, 32 is 1.5 away from 33.5 so you could say you have 1.5*4 (because theres 4 tubes with 32 sweets). If you were to do this for the whole table, it would look something like this:
This simplifies to:
This method can sometimes be inefficient depending on how many values but is probably the simplest way to solve this problem.
hope this helps :)
(sorry the other way is kinda hard to explain possibly ask your teacher tomorrow)