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jgblahblahblah
Dec 14, 2011, 06:01 PM
Please explain it, I'm not quite sure what to do.

Aurora2000
Dec 15, 2011, 01:44 AM
It asks you to solve in y:

\frac{2}{5}\times(32y)=16

multiply both sides by \frac{1}{\frac{2}{5}\times 32} and you get

y=\frac{5}{4}