Answer:
she could be rounding the cents up
Step-by-step explanation:
Answer:
.20
Step-by-step explanation:
The word percent literally means "Out of 100". With that being said, 20% can be written as a fraction, mixed number or whole number as follows: 1/5 (fraction), 20/100 (mixed number) or .20 (whole number).
You first have to set up the two equations. Y is equal to the total number of gallons in a tank and x is equal to the number of hours the tanks are filling.
Since the two equations both equal y I can make them equal each other. I then solved for x as you see and got -4.
Once I found my x value I now needed to find my y. You only needed to chose one equation to solve for y, so I decided to do the first one. I plugged in -4 where my x value currently was and solved for y. I got 2.
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What is asked here is that you isolate y so that the equation takes the form of y = ..., where ... will be something that contains a, b and c but not y. So how do we get there? By applying some standard permutations to equations like so:
aby - b = c
First, we bring the -b term to the right hand side by adding b left and right:
aby -b+b = c+b
The -b and +b cancel out, so we get:
aby = c + b
Then, we divide left and right hand side by ab:
aby/ab = (c+b)/ab
Again, the ab/ab on the left cancels out (it is 1), so we get:
y = (c+b)/ab
And we're done!
So you have to know that it is allowed to add or subtract something (anything) to/from the left and right hand side of an equation. Likewise, you have to know that it is allowed to multiply or divide by something, as long as it isn't 0.
