Are you in college bc what is that?
The decimal for 4 5/8 is 4.625 the 4 represents the whole so 5/8 stays the same and you place the 4 in front of .625
They are not equivalent because when you are doing ratios they are not interchangeable
<span><span>A certain drug is made from only two ingredients: compound A and compound B. There are 5 milliliters of compound A used for every 4 milliliters of compound B. If a chemist uses 255 milliliters of compound A, how many milliliters of the drug will be made?
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4:5 is the same as 4x:5x where 4x is compound A and 5x is compound B.
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Solve for "x":
If amount of compound A is 4x = 255
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