{"id":781,"date":"2012-11-03T01:10:30","date_gmt":"2012-11-03T01:10:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/?p=781"},"modified":"2018-02-22T20:17:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-22T20:17:48","slug":"algebra-solving-equations-with-decimal-coefficients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/algebra-solving-equations-with-decimal-coefficients\/","title":{"rendered":"Algebra:  solving equations with decimal coefficients"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>When you tutor math,\u00a0decimal coefficients surface sometimes &#8211; especially in word problems.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll\u00a0sort out a simple scenario.<\/h1>\n<p>Recently, someone asked me a question very similar to<\/p>\n<p>206.5(0.7x) + 112x = 4000.5<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what to do:<\/p>\n<p>1)\u00a0 multiply the 206.5 by 0.7x:<\/p>\n<p>144.55x + 112x = 4000.5<\/p>\n<p>2)\u00a0 combine the like terms on the left side:<\/p>\n<p>256.55x = 4000.5<\/p>\n<p>3)\u00a0 divide both sides by 256.55 to cancel it from the left:<\/p>\n<p>x=4000.5\/256.55<\/p>\n<p>4)\u00a0 we have the answer:<\/p>\n<p>x=15.59345157<\/p>\n<p>Hope this helps:)<\/p>\n<p>Jack of <a title=\"Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane, Campbell River, BC\" href=\"..\/\">Oracle Tutoring by Jack and Diane<\/a>, Campbell River, BC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When you tutor math,\u00a0decimal coefficients surface sometimes &#8211; especially in word problems.\u00a0 We&#8217;ll\u00a0sort out a simple scenario. Recently, someone asked me a question very similar to 206.5(0.7x) + 112x = 4000.5 Here&#8217;s what to do: 1)\u00a0 multiply the 206.5 by &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/algebra-solving-equations-with-decimal-coefficients\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Algebra:  solving equations with decimal coefficients<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[2754],"class_list":["post-781","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-math","tag-algebra-solving-an-equation-with-decimal-coefficients"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=781"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30302,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/781\/revisions\/30302"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=781"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=781"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.oracletutoring.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=781"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}