Answer: The value of 16 1/4 is 16.25
It is not.
6/12≠1/12
Say you where having a party and brought 2 one dozen boxes of cupcakes. After the party was over, you look in the first box and find 6 of the twelve cupcakes left. You look in the second box and find 1 of the twelve cupcakes left. The number of cupcakes left in each box isn't the same. The two fractions aren't equivalent.
Answer:
0.25x -12= 18- 0.55x (subtract 0.25x from both sides)
-12= 18 -0.80x (subtract 18 from both sides)
-30= -0.80x (divide each side by -0.80)
x= 37.5 (this is your answer)
The answer is 2/7 or 0.28571428... You can find this the same way as your other problem by finding the common denominator and multiplying. (Also, if you go on Mathway, you can find solutions to almost any problem really quickly.)
Hope this helps!
~Jessica
