Answer:
137 boxes
Step-by-step explanation:
1096 boxes * 0.125(12.5% of boxes weighing less than a pound) = 137 boxes
Fraction division is basically multiplication of a reciprocal.
For example (1/4)/(1/8) = (1/4)x(8/1)=2
Multiplication of the answer and the piece that divides (in this case 2 x 1/8), you should get the piece that is being divided (in this case 1/4). If that is correct, then your division is correct.
|a| = b gives
a =b or a = -b
so,
|-x| = -10
gives
-x = -10 or -x = 10
x = 10, -10
now let us verify,
when x = 10, |-10| = +10 and it is not = -10
so, x= 10 is NOT a solution.
when x = -10, |-(-10)| = |10| = 10 and it is not = -10
so, x= -10 is NOT a solution.
hence, this equation does not have a solution.
If we know that |...| can never be negative, we can directly deduce that this equation does not have any solution.
