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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke du

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jour brought to you by missing signs Definitely makes driving

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at night Morehead it's like the operations that make following

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none percent It's true nine times quantity to something for

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equals Eighteen something thirty six All right so we've got

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a problem with some missing symbols and this problem wants

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us to plug in the signs that'll make the equation

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true because true equations are just so much truth here

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Our options for both are plus times or divided by

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okay so let's see what we've got here One thing

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that should jump out at us is that the numbers

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on the right side of the equation are well pretty

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big If we multiply them together we're going to get

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a seriously big number and usually with this type of

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problem that isn't usually the case It doesn't mean it

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can't be the case but in this instance it ain't

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bloody likely though probably isn't division either because we get

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a half and what can you multiply by Nine to

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get a half Well not any sort of nice even

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number So let's nix that possibility is well okay well

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Then if you put a plus sign on the right

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side we get eighteen plus thirty six is fifty For

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what about that Now nine times something equals fifty four

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and that checks out because four is evenly divisible by

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nine So as it turns out nine goes into fit

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for exactly six times So to what Four equal six

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uh yeah plus and that works so we need to

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plug in a plus sign on both sides of the

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equation and boom we're done okay that's about all the

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truthiness we can handle for one day Our compliments Who

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Steven

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