A sales person multiplied a number and get the answer is 3, instead of that number divided by 3. what is th answer he actually has to get ?Correct answer is '1/3'. Can you explain this answer?

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Explanation:

Let's assume the number the sales person wanted to divide by 3 is 'x'.

According to the question, the sales person multiplied 'x' and got the answer 3. So, we can write:

x * y = 3

where 'y' is some unknown number that the sales person used to multiply with 'x'.

We need to find the actual answer that the sales person should have got if he had divided 'x' by 3.

We know that:

x / 3 = (x * 1) / 3

So, if the sales person had divided 'x' by 3, he should have got the answer 'x/3'.

Solving the equation:

Now, we need to find the value of 'x/3' using the equation 'x * y = 3'.

We can write:

x * y = 3

x = 3/y

So, 'x/3' can be written as:

(3/y) / 3 = 3 / 3y = 1 / y

Therefore, the actual answer that the sales person should have got is '1/y'.

As we don't know the value of 'y', we cannot find the exact answer. However, we can say that the answer should be a fraction with 1 as the numerator and some number as the denominator.

So, the correct answer is '1/3'.

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