SOLUTION: Please help me solve this word problem: Betty is 2/5 as old as Steven. If Steven is 60 years old, how old is Bettty?

SOLUTION: Please help me solve this word problem: Betty is 2/5 as old as Steven. If Steven is 60 years old, how old is Bettty?

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Question 918058: Please help me solve this word problem: Betty is 2/5 as old as Steven. If Steven is 60 years old, how old is Bettty?
Answer by KMST(5328) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Betty's age is

NOTE:
You can make the calculation in your head easily,
without grabbing the calculator,
if you simplify that fraction first,
and multiply last, like this:
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