Jaylon makes twice as much an hour as Sam. Sam makes x dollars an hour. Write an expression describing how much Jaylon makes an
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First we must change these numbers to improper fractions:
So then we set it up:
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When we divide fractions like this, we must flip the second fraction and change the sign from division to multiplication like so:
Then we solve:
Then if we divide the numerator and the denominator by 9, we get:
or, in mixed-number form,
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