Dear Joanna243, what do you mean by a "negative fraction decimal". You can't have a fraction and a decimal at the same time. I'll solve it anyway. Take 1/3 and do 1÷3 to get approximately 0.33, then you plug the -3 with 0.33 to get -3.33
For this problem, we use the approach of ratio and proportion. Assuming that the given ratio of 444 days per 230 km is constant all throughout, we can determine the number of days or distance as long as one of the two is given. In this case, the solution is as follows:
444 days/230 km = 161616 days/distance
Distance = 83,720 km
The subtraction theorem states that for all real numbers,
and
,
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(To subtract, we can add the inverse.)
Thus, we can have the these two equivalent expressions.
Answer:
There are a lot of things that can go wrong, especially when we have an error in a measure that we use a lot of times (each time, that error increases).
For example, you think that each meter of fence costs $5, but the actual price is $5.30, and you need 40 meters, then you think that you may need to pay:
40*$5 = $200
But they will actually charge you:
40*$5.30 = $212.
Now this is a small example, now let's go to medicine, suppose that you want to trait cancer with radiation in a pacient, if you do not use precise measures for the dosage of radiation or the measures of the tumor, you may cause a lot of damage in the patient. (And similar cases if you want to give some medication and the numbers that you use are not precise, you may overdose the patient)
So the use of precise numbers may be critical in a lot of scenarios.
