when is 9 = 15.2 - 0.537x
9 = 15.2 - 0.537x
-15.2 -15.2 subtract 15.2 from both sides
-6.2 = -0.537x
/-0.537 /-0.537 divide -0.537 from both sides
11.55 = x or 12 feet round to nearest whole foot
Answer:
Basically this is because division can be thought of as how many times does the divisor have to be multiplied in order to produce the dividend.
So you would need to multiply 1 8 times in order to produce the dividend,
Similarly, 10 goes into 80 8 times. The zeros are simply cancelled out in the division.
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