How do you solve and check your solution given $y + 1 \frac{1}{3} = 3 \frac{1}{18}$ $y+1 1/3=3 1/18$ ?

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Answer 1 · 2017-02-10T04:37:22

You first want to get $y$ $y$ to one side, and the numbers to the other.

Subtract $1 \frac{1}{3}$ $1 1/3$ from both sides:

$y+cancel(1 1/3)-cancel(1 1/3)=3 1/18-1 1/3$

To work this, we have to multiply the $1/3$ by 1 disguised as $6/6$ :

$y=3+1/18-1-(1/3xx6/6)$

$y=3-1+1/18-6/18=2-5/18$ ; we split the $2$

$y=(1+18/18)-5/18=1+13/18=1 13/18$

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