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Can't work out how they have transpossed this.

0.8572=5/x

They changed it to;

x=5/0.8572

Can anyone run me through a step by step.

My automatic reaction would have been to do something like minus 0.8572 from both sides;

=5/x -0.8572

Then perhaps multiply both sides by x;

x=5x/x -0.8572

x canceling the x;

x=5-0.8572

 Oct 10, 2014

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0.8572=5/x   multiply both sides by x

0.8572x=5    divide both sides by 0.8572

x  = 5/0.8572

And there you are !!!

 

 Oct 10, 2014
 #1
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0.8572=5/x   multiply both sides by x

0.8572x=5    divide both sides by 0.8572

x  = 5/0.8572

And there you are !!!

 

CPhill Oct 10, 2014
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Thanks.

Looks simple the way you have done it, sadly not that simple that it was obvious to me when I tried to do it.

More practice required.

 Oct 11, 2014
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It was a good question.  

It is great when people ask properly thought through questions and stick around long enough to comment on, or further question, the given answers.     

 Oct 11, 2014

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