Paul's height is 73 inches and his brother Nathan is 17/18 of his brother's height. How tall is...
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Paul's height is 73 inches and his brother Nathan is 17/18 of his brother's height. How tall is Nathan?
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Although the banes of many a student's existence, word problems really are the heart and soul of mathematics; without giving meaning to numbers, they are, well, meaningless. In the problem above we are provided with an English sentence and a question. To answer the question, we will rewrite the English sentence as a mathematical equation, then solve it.
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View this answerWhat we need to do here is translate the English sentence into a mathematical statement. Let's call Paul's height p, then we are told
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