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MP Reason Tarique drew a visual model to show the product 2/5x 7. How could you change the visual model to show the product 28/5 Explain and write an equation.

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Shishana, this is the solution:

Tarique in the graph, drew the product of 2/5 * 7

2/5 * 7 = 14/5

The equation to help Tarique to show the product 28/5, would be:

Let x to represent the number of boxes in the visual model of Tarique per row

x/5 * 7 = 28/5

7x/5 = 28/5

Multiplying by 5 at both sides:

7x = 28

Dividing by 7 at both sides:

7x/7 = 28/7

x = 4

This means that now Tarique will have to shadow 4 out of 5 boxes for each of the 7 rows of the visual mode, in the way:

4/5 * 7 = 28/5

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