Question

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

Answer 1

Answer:

Let our required no. be x.

Then,

1/2 × (x-1/2)= 1/8

x-1/2= 1/4

x= 1/4+1/2

so,. x = 3/4

Hence the number is 3/4.

Answer 2

Answer:

Let our required no. be x.

Then,  

1/2 × (x-1/2)= 1/8  

x-1/2= 1/4  

x= 1/4+1/2  

so,. x = 3/4  

Hence the number is 3/4.

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