Practice problem

Solving One-Step Equations with Multiplication — Examples

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Alex Federspiel
Liza Sulkin
Anusha Rahman

\text{e Day}

=== Today (February $7^{th}$ ) is $e$ day! We celebrate it today because the first two digits of $e$ are $2.7$ .

A famous quote in Shakespeare's Hamlet is, "To be, or not to be." Suppose Hamlet is trying to solve this equation for $x$ : $\frac xe=2$ Is the answer $2e$ , or $\text{not }2e$ ? That is the question.