Question

What is the value of x/3y , when x = 18 and y = 3?

Answer 1

So when you work with variables (x, y or any other letter), when they're beside a number it usually means to multiply.

So 3y can also be written as 3(3). So 3 multiplied by 3 is equal to 9

So now our problem looks like this,

x/9.

Since we already know what x is equal to, our problem will look like this

18/9.

So now all we have to do is divide.

18 divided by 9 is 2

So therefore, your answer is 2.

I hope this helps :)