We know that there are 60 minutes in an hour, so to get the ratio to equal terms, we could multiply 60 by 3 to find the number of minutes in 3 hours, which is 90. Now the ratio is 17 minutes to 90 minutes. I'm pretty sure this is the lowest terms, but if they want you to convert it to seconds or something, you would multiply 17 by 60 for the first number and 90 by 60 for the second number. Hope this helps!
The solution to 5x=35 is..
X=7
5x\5=35/5
Hello there! An example problem for this could be:
Emile is looking for a cell-phone plan. His two options are one that costs $40 up front, and costs $0.01 per text, represented by x. The second one is 15 dollars up front and costs $0.06 for each text message. Emile figures that for the first package he has to send 500 texts or more to make it less than the second one.
