Question

Gavin was thinking of a number. Gavin halves the number and gets an answer of 34.3. Form an equation with x as information.

Answer 1

Gavin's number is 68.6

Equation: 1/2(x) = 34.3

Use inverse operations on both sides.

1/2(x) = 1x or x = 34.3(2)

34.3(2) = 68.6

Thus, x equals 68.6