Question

If you subtract 1/2 from a number and multiply the result by 1/3, you get 1/8. What is the number.​

Answer 1

Answer:

If we subtract 1/2 from a number and multiply the result by 1/2, then we get 1/8. Therefore 3/4 is the number from which if we subtract 1/2 from a number and multiply the result by 1/2, we get 1/8.

Answer 2

Answer:

Let us consider the number be x

As per the given condition

If we subtract 1/2 from a number and multiply the result by 1/2, then we get 1/8.

So the equation becomes

(1/2)(x – 1/2) = (1/8)

(x – 1/2) = (1/4)

4x – 2 = 1

4x = 3

x=3/4

Hence x = 3/4