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Help please Find if Mia’s solution was correct, or if she made a mistake and in what step.

Help please Find if Mia’s solution was correct, or if she made a mistake and in what-example-1
User Remi
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The equation Mia solved is,


\text{0}.1t-3=5

Soving stepwisely,

Step 1: By collecting like terms,


\begin{gathered} 0.1t=5+3 \\ 0.1t=8 \end{gathered}

Mia's solution is incorrect and her mistake was in the first step.

User Squeezemylime
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