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Lin multiplies 7/8 times a number. The product is less than 7/8. Which could be Lin’s number?

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Solution

For this case we can do the following. Let:

x= the number of interest

We can create the following inequality:

7/8 x < 7/8

If we multiply both sides by 8/7 we got:

x <1

Then the number should be less than 1

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