So firstly, multiply both sides by 4 (the reciprocal of 1/4):
Next, subtract both sides by 2 and your answer will be:
You take out two loans for school. The first loan is 15,000 dollars with 4% interest per year. The second loan is 20,000 dollars
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One way you could solve this is to just multiply the top and bottom out so that you get 9/81, reducing it by 9/9 to get 1/9 or option C.
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since dividing numbers with exponents would be subtracting the bottom exponent from the top exponent, provided that the base number (in this case 3) is the same for both. For this method, you would get 
, which is equal to 1/9 or .1 repeating, the same answer that you'd get with the first method.
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