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Jun 6 2014 03:55pm
im doing multiplying and dividing fractions

i cannot figure the problems out with variable like x
one im working on now is 3/4 divided by 3/x
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Jun 6 2014 04:27pm
basic rule:

(a/b) / (c/d) = (a/b) * (d/c)

ie your particular question is (3/4) / (3/x) = (3/4) * (x/3) = x/4
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Jun 6 2014 04:33pm
Quote (brmv @ 6 Jun 2014 18:27)
basic rule:

(a/b) / (c/d) = (a/b) * (d/c)

ie your particular question is (3/4) / (3/x) = (3/4) * (x/3) = x/4


i am looking in my book at the answers after i do a problem and it says the answer to 1/7 devided by 3/x = x-21/7x
and when i done it the way you stated i got x/21
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Quote (clanwkya @ 6 Jun 2014 22:33)
i am looking in my book at the answers after i do a problem and it says the answer to 1/7 devided by 3/x = x-21/7x
and when i done it the way you stated i got x/21


are you sure you are reading the problem correctly?
post it here exactly, best as copy from the book
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Jun 6 2014 04:57pm
1/7 divided by 3/x is x/21.

Your book is bad, throw it away.
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Jun 6 2014 05:11pm
Quote (feanur @ 6 Jun 2014 18:57)
1/7 divided by 3/x is x/21.

Your book is bad, throw it away.


Quote (brmv @ 6 Jun 2014 18:55)
are you sure you are reading the problem correctly?
post it here exactly, best as copy from the book


no i mis read hehe its - not /
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Jun 6 2014 05:59pm
Quote (clanwkya @ 6 Jun 2014 23:11)
no i mis read hehe its - not /


good, i worried that it was a textbook teaching creationist mathematics :D
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