Lin-Yao spent a titl of 12.5 minutes folding some paper origami cranes. it took her 1.25 minutes to fold each one. The equation 1 25c = 12.5 represents this situation where c equals the number of orgami cranes she folded. what is the value of c in the equatuiin?

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Lucia Durham

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21 January, 12:24

Lin-Yao spent a titl of 12.5 minutes folding some paper origami cranes. it took her 1.25 minutes to fold each one. The equation 1 25c = 12.5 represents this situation where c equals the number of orgami cranes she folded. what is the value of c in the equatuiin?

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Monica Hayes · Answer 1

1.25c=12.5

Let's look at the equation. We need C by itself. The only way we can do so is by dividing each side by 1.25

1.25c=12.5

1.25c:1.25 = c

12.5:1.25 = 10

C=10

The value of C in the equation is 10.