Question

when i scsn my pic of my question it wants me to crop the picture when i try to crop it the whole page dissappears im getting reslly annoyed help??????

Answer 1

Let a be the missing value. Then,

`2(3)/(12)+(3)/(a)=2(5)/(8)`

Therefore,

`(3)/(a)=2(5)/(8)-2(3)/(12)=2(5)/(8)-2(1)/(4)=2(5)/(8)-2(2)/(8)=(2-2)(5-2)/(8)=(3)/(8)`

That is

`\begin{gathered} (3)/(a)=(3)/(8) \\ \text{ Hence,} \\ a=8 \end{gathered}`

Therefore, the missing value is 8