0.04 with 4 repeating as a fraction. Not the 04 repeating just the 4 is repeating. What is the answer???
1 answer:
Answer:
2/45
Step-by-step explanation:
0.04... is the same as 0.1 * 0.4... because we are moving it up a decimal place, it's the same as multiplying by ten: we needed to multiply by a tenth to cancel that out. 0.4... is the same as 4/9 and 0.1 is the same as 1/10. We can rewrite the expression above as: . Multiplying the two fractions results in 4/90 which can be simplified to 2/45.
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Answer:
<em>There are 72 crayons in the box</em>
Step-by-step explanation:
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To solve this problem we'll manage numbers as fractions to keep the precision up to the end of it.
Lynn has a box of crayons. It's given 4/9 of the crayons are blue. The remaining crayons are:
From that portion, 65% are red, or equivalently, 35% are yellow.
We write 35% as a fraction:
Thus, the portion of yellow crayons is:
This fraction of x crayons is equal to 14, thus:
x = 72
There are 72 crayons in the box