SOLUTION: A jeweler used 2146 diamonds to make a necklace. he then used 4/7 of the remaining diamonds to make a ring. If the jeweller had 27% of the original number of diamonds left,then the

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Question 1063944: A jeweler used 2146 diamonds to make a necklace. he then used 4/7 of the remaining diamonds to make a ring. If the jeweller had 27% of the original number of diamonds left,then the total number of diamonds he had in the beginning were what
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Follow each change in number of diamonds step by step.

d, original number of diamonds.


d-2146 remain after necklace.

%283%2F7%29%28d-2146%29 remain after ring.

%283%2F7%29%28d-2146%29=%2827%2F100%29d twenty-seven percent of the original diamonds remain unused. Solve this equation for d.