Given $7.4/x=0.3$ , how do you solve for x?

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Answer 1 · 2016-06-03T00:29:52

I found $x=74/3=24.67$

I would write it as:
$(74/10)/x=3/10$
I isolate $x$ :
$x=(74/10)/(3/10)=74/cancel(10)*cancel(10)/3=74/3$

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