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jmc

prealgebra senior

Problem

Compute the product of and , and write your result as a fraction in simplified form.
Solution
If we define the variable to be , then multiplying both sides of by 1000 gives us Subtracting from and from tells us that and thus We can now calculate that our final answer is
Final answer
\frac{41}{37}