What is 40/100 expressed in tenths

  4/10

Step-by-step explanation:

You can remove a factor of 10 from numerator and denominator to get a fraction in tenths:

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You can also look at it as a decimal:

 0.40 = 0.4 . . . "four tenths"

step-by-step explanation:

first, eliminate the parenthesis:

3

x

+

2

−

4

x

second, group like terms:

3

x

−

4

x

+

2

third, combine like terms:

(

3

−

4

)

x

+

2

→

−

1

x

+

2

→

−

x

+

2