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prealgebra senior

Problem

Express as a common fraction, given:

Solution
We first simplify the expression on the left hand side of the equation: Since dividing by a fraction is the same thing as multiplying by its reciprocal, we have that . We can then multiply both sides of the equation by to get that . Since , to find , we can take the square root of both sides of the equation:
Final answer
\frac{10}{3}