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A bicycle has 44 teeth on the front gear. This is four times the number of teeth on the rear gear. Write and solve and equation to find the number of teeth on the rear gear.
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A bicycle has 44 teeth on the front gear. This is four times the number of teeth on the rear gear. Write and solve and equation to find the number of teeth on the rear gear.

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4 • x = 44
Since the inverse of multiplying is dividing you would divide 44 by 4 which would be 11. 4 • 11 = 44. So the number of teeth on the rear gear would be 11.
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