SOLUTION: #1: What number can be added to both the numerator and the denominator of 16/37 to produce a fraction equal to 5/8? To answer this, let x be the number in question.
#2: What num
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Question 4628: #1: What number can be added to both the numerator and the denominator of 16/37 to produce a fraction equal to 5/8? To answer this, let x be the number in question.
#2: What number can be subtracted from both the numerator and denominator of 47/59 to produce a fraction equal to 7/9?
need help, final's coming up...please...
Answer by longjonsilver(2297) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You need to convert the English into maths. That is the main challenge:
and now cross-multiply, to give
128+8x = 185+5x
3x=57
x=57/3
--> x=19
CHECK!!! --> 16+19 is 35 and 37+19 is 56, so the fraction is then 35/56 which simplifies to 5/8, so correct.
Now you try the subtract version yourself.
jon
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