Mental block arithmetic

[brightncheerful]

Friday afternoon, weary, demanding week, etc. I should know how to do this but…

IF 1.79 = 80,000
THEN what does 1 = ?


tia

[Breelander]

Friday afternoon, weary, demanding week, etc. I should know how to do this but…

IF 1.79 = 80,000
THEN what does 1 = ?

80,000 divided by 1.79, or ‭44,692.737...

(blame it on going stir-crazy in lockdown)

[Itsallaguess]

Friday afternoon, weary, demanding week, etc. I should know how to do this but…

IF 1.79 = 80,000

THEN what does 1 = ?

1 = 80,000 divided by 1.79

so

1 = 44,692.7374301676

Cheers,

Itsallaguess

[brightncheerful]

Thanks, I did that before posting.

Mental block I now realise is not that but thinking I could go straight to what I'm really wanting to do which is to calculate what 0.32 equates to.

Answer: 14,301.68

[PinkDalek]

Doesn’t 1 normally equal 1 (yes, I know people can prove otherwise)?

[madhatter]

Doesn’t 1 normally equal 1 (yes, I know people can prove otherwise)?

Yes it bleeding does.
I fancy the equals sign should have been replaced by a colon.

[swill453]

Doesn’t 1 normally equal 1 (yes, I know people can prove otherwise)?

I presume people were translating in their head that the problem actually was

IF 1.79x = 80,000
THEN what does x = ?

Then further, what does 0.32x = ?

Scott.