SOLUTION: Find the number which, when substracted from the tetms of the ratio 12:17 makes it equal to the ratio ?

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Question 986218: Find the number which, when substracted from the tetms of the ratio 12:17 makes it equal to the ratio ?
Answer by josgarithmetic(39620)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You are asking to subtract some number, x, from the ratio so that .







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