document.write( "Question 615969: I am 62 and am tutoring a 50-year old woman who needs to pass the entrance exam for a college algebra class at the University of Maine in Augusta this Fall. I have done this question by calulator for an answer of B=1.08, but she reduced the fractions longhand and got B=0.1. Doing it her way step-by-step I see the problem is in the cross-products, but I cannot write it out in a step-by-step fashion to get the right answer either. Would you please write out the step-by-step reduction for me? The question is:\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "3Ľ/2 = B/two-thirds, that is 3 and one-quarter over 2 = B over two-thirds.\r
\n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "Thank you. I see my student again next Tuesday, June 5th, Bob Gross \n" ); document.write( "

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3Ľ/2 = B/two-thirds
\n" ); document.write( "3 and 1/4=13/4
\n" ); document.write( "rewrite equation:
\n" ); document.write( "(13/4)/2=B/(2/3)
\n" ); document.write( "cross-multiply
\n" ); document.write( "2B=(2/3)(13/4=26/12
\n" ); document.write( "divide by 2
\n" ); document.write( "B=26/24=13/12
\n" ); document.write( "If an exact answer is wanted, you must leave it in this fraction form.
\n" ); document.write( "If a decimal answer is wanted, you will get 13/12=1.08333...
\n" ); document.write( "so, you would probably round it off depending on how many decimal places are wanted.
\n" ); document.write( "one decimal place=1.1
\n" ); document.write( "two decimal places=1.08
\n" ); document.write( "three decimal places=1.083
\n" ); document.write( "etc.
\n" ); document.write( "hope this helps \n" ); document.write( "

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