SOLUTION: three fifths of a number is equal to twice the number minus sixty-three hundredths. What is the number?
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Question 1076196: three fifths of a number is equal to twice the number minus sixty-three hundredths. What is the number?
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
three fifths of a number is equal to twice the number minus sixty-three hundredths.
n = 2n -
get rid of those annoying denominators, multiply 100
100*n = 100(2n) - 100*
Cancel the denominators
20(3n) = 200n - 63
60n - 200n = -63
-140n = -63
n = -63/-140
same as
n = 63//140 reduces to
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Check this
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