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Old 21-03-2013, 09:20   #92
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Re: World Maths Day Today

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Originally Posted by gpick24 View Post
a=b X c
a is known, b is known, you want to know c.
So you divide both sides by c.
a/c=b X c / c
The X c/c cancel each other out and you get
a/c=b
It can be done with ordinary divide as sugar mentioned, so we wouldn't need to use algebra for such a simplistic sum.
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