Question

what is the answer to 5x = 2 over 3 ? HELP ME PLEASE!

Answer 1

is this your problem?

Answer 2

Divide 2/3 by 5 to get X alone

Answer 3

yeah thats my problem

Answer 4

how do i divide 2 / 3 by 5?

Answer 5

or it might be easier to think of it in terms of multiplying each side by 1/5

\[\frac{ 1 }{ 5 } 5x = \frac{ 2 }{ 3 }\frac{ 1 }{ 5 }\]

\[x = \frac{ 2 }{ 3 }\frac{ 1 }{ 5 }\]

so what is 2/3 times 1/5?

Answer 6

2/ 15?

Answer 7

Yep!

Answer 8

Perfect

Answer 9

can it be simplified ?

Answer 10

can it? does any number go into both 2 and 15 evenly?

Answer 11

no

Answer 12

Then that is your final answer :)

Answer 13

how about 2k = 5/6? im only 12 and they gave me way too hard math work. :(

Answer 14

don't worry about it.

Well remember how we just multiplied both sides by 1/5 to cancel out 5x?

to cancel out 2k...what do we multiply by?

Answer 15

1/2 times 5/6 ?

Answer 16

perfect...which comes out to?

Answer 17

5/ 12?

Answer 18

and correct again :) and that cannot be simplified correct?

Answer 19

correct?

Answer 20

...correct lol...so 5/12 is your answer!

Answer 21

thank you!!!! youre sooooooo awesome!!! you should be a math teacher!

Answer 22

I'm going to be one :)

Answer 23

I'm a tutor actually lol...and that's awesome @FutureMathProfessor good luck!!

Answer 24

Me too in college xD

Answer 25

as am I lol....do it as part of a work-study thing lol