document.write( "Question 253240: I have an equation that has x over 2, like this: y=x/2\r
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\n" ); document.write( "No, it makes it different. Here is another way to look at this.
\n" ); document.write( "Take a simple fraction like 3/4, this would be totally different if we made it look like: 1/3*4 (* means multiply)
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