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Translate the following phrase into a math expression whichever is appropriate use x to represent the unknown number One sixth of a number

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One sixth of a number, let the number be x;

One sixth of x can be written as;


(1)/(6)ofx\text{ }

This can be rewritten to get the final expression;


(x)/(6)

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