SOLUTION: Hello, I am really confused about this problem! Hope you can help! The equation is : 7-12 square root 1/9. I was thinking that it would be 7-12(1/3) = 7-4 and the answer wou

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Question 586103: Hello, I am really confused about this problem! Hope you can help!
The equation is : 7-12 square root 1/9.
I was thinking that it would be 7-12(1/3) = 7-4 and the answer would be 3.
Thank you!

Answer by Alan3354(69443)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hello, I am really confused about this problem! Hope you can help!
The equation is : 7-12 square root 1/9.
There's no equal sign, so that's not an equation.
What do you want to do?
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= 3
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Is that it?
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Don't call things equations that are not, and state what it is you're trying to do.
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I was thinking that it would be 7-12(1/3) = 7-4 and the answer would be 3.
Thank you!

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