SOLUTION: A cook uses fifteen 2-kg bottles of cooking-oil over a 4-week period. If he decides to buy 5-kg tins of oil instead, how many tins of cooking oil will he use over a 10-week period

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Question 389013: A cook uses fifteen 2-kg bottles of cooking-oil over a 4-week period. If he decides to buy 5-kg tins of oil instead, how many tins of cooking oil will he use over a 10-week period if the rate of using it remains unchanged?
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  • This is an equation! Solutions: x=15.
  • Graphical form: Equation was fully solved.
  • Text form: (15*2)/4=5x/10 simplifies to 0=0
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Remove unneeded parentheses around factor highlight_red%28+15+%29,highlight_red%28+2+%29
It becomes .
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Factors 2 and 4 have greatest common factor (GCF) of 2. Reducing fraction.
It becomes .
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Multiplied numerator integers
It becomes .
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Factors 5 and 10 have greatest common factor (GCF) of 5. Reducing fraction.
It becomes .
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Remove extraneous '1' from product highlight_red%28+1+%29
It becomes .
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Moved these terms to the left highlight_green%28+-x%2F2+%29
It becomes .
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Moved 15%2F2 to the right of expression
It becomes .
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Solved linear equation highlight_red%28+-x%2F2%2B15%2F2=0+%29 equivalent to -0.5*x+7.5 =0
It becomes .
Result:
This is an equation! Solutions: x=15.

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