NinjaDevo

You've never had pie zegroes?

I personally like homemade apple pie.

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We are asked "what is two percent of 500,000?"

"of" in math means multiplication

2% x 500,000

2% is really .02

.02 x 500,000

Using a calculator we can see that .02 x 500,000 = 10,000

There we go, 2% of 500,000 is 10,000!

1 cm = 10 mm

So, whats the scale factor between 5mm and 10 mm?

Scale factor is really asking "how much bigger is one measurement compared to another measurement?"

Let's make the two measurements into a fraction

$${\frac{{\mathtt{5}}}{{\mathtt{10}}}}$$

This can be reduced to:

$${\frac{{\mathtt{1}}}{{\mathtt{2}}}}$$

So 1/2 is our scale factor.

It's important to know that 2 is also the scale factor to these two objects. If you were to swap the measurements' place's in the fraction, it would still work, I'll show you:

$${\frac{{\mathtt{10}}}{{\mathtt{5}}}}$$

I just swaped their places. This can be reduced to:

$${\frac{{\mathtt{2}}}{{\mathtt{1}}}}$$

or just 2

So either 2 or 1/2 are our scale factors. What these numbers are saying is that one object is 2 times bigger than the other, or that the other object is 1/2 the size of the first object.

Well, you have two different questions...the one in the title and the one in the body of your question.

Title question: 162 x 171 = 27,702

Body question: 170 x 122 = 20,740

I almost forogt, Melody sugested that each topic be a "reply" to the original post, I will probably do this on the final draft

64^2/3 = (64^1/3)², or (³√64)²

So..what times itself 3 times equals 64?

4*4*4 = 64.

(³√64)²

(4)²

16 is our answer.

Does this make sence?

I asked CPhill, and he had recieved the message all along!

Sorry about that