The sum of two consecutive odd integers is 236. What is the smaller integer? (1 point)
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Answer:
Hopefully, this is your desired setup. (I noticed the formula you have to fill in there.)
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Step-by-step explanation:
Hi.
You could use the percent change formula.
Since we know it is a percent increase then we will do new-old instead of old-new:
x is the new amount of shampoo.
16.5 is the original amount (old) of shampoo.
The percent increase is 30%=0.30 .
So we have the following equation:
We could have found the equation like this:
Subtract 16.5 on both sides:
Divide both sides by 16.5:
By us of symmetric property of equality: