Question

If 1/8 of my money is $80. What is 50 % of my money

Answer 1

$320

Explanation:

An easy way to solve this problem is to undo the operations, Find the total amount of money, and then find half of the amount. Since (80) is (
`(1)/(8)`) the total amount of money, one has to multiply (80) by (8) to find the total amount of money.

(80) * (8)

= 640

Now one is asked to find (50%) of the money. It is known that (50%) is equivalent to (0.5), therefore multiply (640) by (0.5) to find how much (50%) of the money is.

(640) * (0.5)

= 320