Answer :
Final answer:
Bridget's original number before halving it is found by the equation x / 2 = 97.3. To find x, you multiply 97.3 by 2, giving the number 194.6. This is Bridget's original number she was thinking of.
Explanation:
The student is asking how to form an equation with x based on the information that Bridget halves the number and gets an answer of 97.3. The equation that represents this situation is:
x / 2 = 97.3
To find the original number, we need to undo the halving operation by multiplying both sides by 2:
x = 97.3 imes 2
This gives us:
x = 194.6
However, if we stayed within the instructions, which specify rounding our final answer to the hundredths place and because the first number being dropped in the calculation is 7, we round up. Therefore, we report a final answer of 194.6.
