Question 187

The product of 5% of a posit ive number and 3% of the saute number is 504.6. What is half of that number ?

Solution

Call the number x...then we have

.05x * .03x = 504.6

.0015x^2 = 504.6

Now divide both sides by .0015 and get
x^2 = 336400
x = 580 and
(1/2)x = 290

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