Answer:
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Step-by-step explanation:
2/5 x - 1/7 x = 36
14/35 x - 5/35x = 36
9x / 35 = 36
x = 35*36 / 9
x = 35*4 = 140 (answer).
The physical position of something.
This might look hard at first, but if you break it down into parts, it will be much easier. With that said, start with what you know. You see that the word problem says "the difference of y and 9", which means that you have to stubtract them. So, part of the equation is going to be y - 9. Now to look at the rest of the word problem. It says to divide by 3, so now you have to take what you have so far and divide that by 3. This means that you are going to have to divide the y - 9 by 3.
Your answer should be:
y - 9 / 3
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So, this problem is asking us to find the value of our variable
u.
How can you do this? By isolating the variable, or having only it on one side of the equals sign.
Here's the step by step approach. It's just simple algebra and reverse order of operation (which is what you should do whenever you are solving for a variable).

Multiply both sides by 11 to get rid of the 11 denominator.

Then, subtract both sides by 88 to get u by itself.

Therefore, u is equal to 99.