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39 kg Rice of taken out of a bag of rice. If 8/22 of the rice is left in the beg then find the quantity of rice the bag contained in the beginning

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Answer:

429/7 kg or 61 2/7 kg

Explanation:

I'll answer according to how I understand this problem, but I'm not sure this is correct.

"39 kg of rice is taken out of bag of rice. If 8/22 of the rice is left, what was the original weight of the rice in the bag?"

8/22 is a strange number to work with because it could have been given as 4/11. This is another reason I'm not too sure about this problem.

8/22 = 4/11

If 4/11 is left, then since 11/11 - 4/11 = 7/11, 7/11 of the rice remains.

7/11 x = 39

x = 39 × 11/7

x = 429/7

x = 61 2/7

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