Dividing fractions is the same as multiplying by its reciprocal so you can change the equation to this
And you can simplify by eliminating the fours and multiplying straight across
You can pull out - 7 from the top and 2 from the bottom so you have this
And then you can cancel out to (2-x) to get an answer of
Answer:
Probability of choosing a penny at random is 1/5 or 0.2
Step-by-step explanation:
For many probabilities like this one, you have to add the total of materials or items together, even if they are different colors, shape, coin type, etc.
you have 12 pennies, 19 nickles, 14 dimes, and 15 quarters. This adds up to a total of 60 coins. Twelve of those are pennies.
You have twelve possible pennies to choose at random from a total of 60 in a bag.
So 12/60/ This simplifies to a probability of 1/5. If you divide 1 by 5 than it would be 0.2
The probability of choosing a penny from a bag of coins is 1/5, or 0.2.
Hope this helps
Keep in mind the the word "percent" translates to "for each 100." 25% can be read as "25 for each 100," which has the fractional representation
and the decimal representation 0.25. All of these representations are just different ways of writing the same value.
Note too that the fraction
can be reduced to
, so what the question is really asking is: 1/4 of what number is 9?
Well, if we know that 1/4 of the number is 9, we can easily find how large the whole number is by finding all 4/4 of it (the <em>whole</em> number)<em /><em />, or 4 x 9, which multiplies out to
36.
3/4 (x+8)=9
3/4x+6=9
-6
3/4x=3
X=4
Check
3/4(4+8)=9
3/4 (12)=9
9=9
Answer:
no who pays almost 9 bucks for ice cream
