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On my homework i need help with this one particular question.i need help with it because i dont understand it what so ever.

so can you plese help me with this one question
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100 is 1/10 of what

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Let's call the unknown number ' W '.

You said that 100 is 1 tenth of W .

Write that as an equation: 100 = (1/10) W

Now multiply each side by 10 : (10) 100 = (10) (1/10) W

Left side: (10) 100 is 1,000
Right side: (10) (1/10) is 1
So the equation says that 1,000 = W


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