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The product of a number and three is 7.5 what is the number first right and a question to describe the situation.

The product of a number and three is 7.5 what is the number first right and a question-example-1
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Reading the question, we can find the followed expression, where X is the number that we want to find:


3x=7.5

Now, we can divide both sides by 3 to find our number x:


(3)/(3)x=(7.5)/(3)\rightarrow x=2.5

So our number x is 2.5

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