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  • Dec 6, 2007, 01:41 PM
    jeepey
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    Struggling with a simple equation
    Hello

    Can anyone please help with this simple problem :confused:
    (see attached word document)

    Any help appreciated. :)
  • Dec 6, 2007, 02:17 PM
    asterisk_man
    The problem you have listed is

    and you want to solve for P0.
    First I'll convert 3 4/7 to 3.57


    Your first problem is when you moved 46.4 to the left you got 37, but it should be 36.9.
    Your second problem is that you divided 37 by 7 6/35 incorrectly. I'm not sure what you did to get 0.1938 but you should have converted 7 6/35 into a single fraction, 251/35 and then divided 37 by that or multiplied by 35/251 which would have given 1295/251... which is still wrong because of your first mistake.

    Hope this helps!

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