Question

Solve the equation for a

Answer 1

a/2 = a/3=5

Answer 2

a = 2

a = 6

a = 3

a = 5

a = 30

Answer 3

its that guy!

Answer 4

i'm looking

Answer 5

maybe 30.

let me get more people

Answer 6

yea cause this is easy I just haven't did something like this in 15 years

Answer 7

@JackofallTradez @sammixboo

Answer 8

i remember doing this too, it's almost extinct in my mind

Answer 9

right

Answer 10

@amistre64

Answer 11

@iGreen

Answer 12

@EclipsedStar @e.mccormick

Answer 13

:(

Answer 14

@welshfella

Answer 15

@Preetha

Answer 16

us need peeps

Answer 17

@robtobey

Answer 18

@dan815

Answer 19

@hba

Answer 20

@rational

Answer 21

@King.Void.

Answer 22

this is sad

Answer 23

Can you write the whole equation using the editor or the draw tool?

Answer 24

maybe I should @ them like this @amistre64 we are not doing conics

Answer 25

YAY, there's people!

Answer 26

\[\frac{ a }{ 2}+\frac{ a }{ 3 }=5\]

Answer 27

Now that makes more sense, previously you had wroten

a/2 = a/3 = 5

And that made no sense. lol.

Answer 28

:(

Answer 29

Ok, so we need to get a common denominator, what is the LCM of 2 and 3?

Answer 30

dang, now i can probably help

Answer 31

30 is like super wrong fyi :P

Answer 32

2,4,6,8,10

Answer 33

3,6,9,12,15

Answer 34

Exactly! So 6 is the least common multiple of 2 and 3.

Answer 35

a/2 = a/3=5

is this typed correctly?

Answer 36

What? @TheSmartOne , i didn't know what to do with that kind of structure in the equation

Answer 37

yea

Answer 38

So:

\(\sf\Large\left(\frac{a}{2}\times \frac{3}{3}\right) + \left(\frac{a}{3}\times \frac{2}{2}\right)=?\)

Answer 39

@amistre64 I asked the same question lol, he rewrote it using the equation tool.

Answer 40

6/2=3
6/3=2
2+3 is...

Answer 41

This is the actual question
\(\sf\Large\frac{ a }{ 2}+\frac{ a }{ 3 }=5\)

Answer 42

i'm goin

Answer 43

5

Answer 44

a 5a/6

Answer 45

Yes, it would be 5a/6

So now we have:

\(\sf \Large\frac{5a}{6}=5\)

Multiply 6 on both sides and divide by 5 on both sides

So basically:

\(\sf\Large\frac{5a}{6}\times \frac{6}{5}=5 \times \frac{6}{5}\)

And that will tell you what a is equal to

Answer 46

=6

Answer 47

Correct, and that is your answer :)

Answer 48

:)