Answer:
The task is explained in detail below.
Step-by-step explanation:
We know that a dog, a goat, and a bag of tin cans are to be transported across a river in a ferry that can carry only one of these three items at once (along with a ferry driver).
The driver will first transport the goat to the other shore and then return empty. Then they will take a bag of tin and transport it to the other shore, and then they will return with the goat to their original place.
Then he will leave the goat there and take a dog and carry it to the other shore and then return empty.
And eventually they will take the goat and transport it to the other shore.
Multiply the cost of an item or service by the sales tax in order to find out the total cost.<span>Make sure you put the sales tax into decimal form. You do this by taking the percentage and sliding the decimal point two places to the left: ...<span>Example: $60 (item cost) x .075 (sales tax) = $4.5 total sales tax.</span></span>
The next term in this fraction sequence is 1/3.
To find the next term in this sequence, we can start by converting all of the fraction into a common denominator (so we can compare them better). The least common denominator for all of these number is 12. Now we can convert them all to something over 12.
To convert 2/3 to something over 12, we must find what form of one we must multiply 3 (the denominator) by to get 12. 12/3 is 4, so we must multiply by 4/4. This gives us 2/3 = 8/12.
Since 7/12 is already over twelve, we can just leave it alone.
To convert 1/2 to something over 12, we need to find what we have to multiply 2 by to get 12. 12/2 is 6, so now we need to multiply 1/2 by 6/6, which gives us 1/2 = 6/12.
5/12 is already over twelve, so we can just leave it alone.
Now we need to put them back in order. We have:
8/12, 7/12, 6/12, 5/12... Just by looking at them, we can see that the denominators are getting smaller by 1. That means that the next term in the sequence will be less than the previous one by 1/12. What term is less than 5/12 by 1/12? 4/12 is. But, that's not our answer. We can simplify 4/12 to get our answer of 1/3.
