Homework Help: math

Posted by cha on Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 4:50pm.

A company sells cardboard that is nine and one-eighth millimeters thick. Write an equation to solve for the number of sheets of cardboard, c, in a pile that is two hundred fifty-five and one-half millimeters thick. What must be done to both sides to solve the equation?

math - Ms. Sue, Wednesday, May 9, 2012 at 4:54pm
9.125c = 255.5

Divide both sides of the equation by 9.125

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