Question #76013

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Aug 26, 2017

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Explanation:

Let's break this down word for word:

The quotient of means that there will be some sort of division going on. We can express this "something"/"something"somethingsomething for now.

a number can be a variable and expressed as nn. Thus far, we have an expression like this:

n/"something"nsomething

7 is simply 77 but the phrase The quotient of a number and 7... can be expressed as

n/7n7

Lastly, is 30. The is is the same as an equal sign. So is 30 gives us:

=30=30

Thus, the entire phrase: The quotient of a number and 7 is 30 can be written as:

n/7=30n7=30

If we wanted to find this number, we can simply solve for nn

7timesn/7=30times77×n7=30×7

cancel7timesn/cancel7=210

n=210

We can verify this by substituting 210 for n in the original equation:

210/7=30

30=30larr TRUE