SOLUTION: photocopiers can reduce or enlarged an item being copied. the scale factor of the copy to the original is expressed as a percent. if you want the original to be one fourth the side

Question 567568: photocopiers can reduce or enlarged an item being copied. the scale factor of the copy to the original is expressed as a percent. if you want the original to be one fourth the side of the copy, at what percent do you set the copier?
Answer by josmiceli(19441) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Note that " percent " means " per one hundred ",
so "x" percent is
given:

Multiply both sides by

se the copier to 25%
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