"Oh! This is Cross-Multiplication....!!"

[Rupesh Gesota]

I had given them enough time to struggle and figure out how to evaluate 'x' from such equations, where variable is in the denominator: 

But when I found that they were unable to do this for long, I decided to intervene. In the above problem, it's easy to visualize that 2x-1 has to be 3, so that we get quotient as 3, and for this 2x should be 4 and hence x=2.

But I was aware that this game would not be always so easy. For ex., what if it is -

It's not so easy to solve this problem using the approach above (Why?)

So the objective was to accomplish a general strategy. Meanwhile, I was also aware that they are very comfortable with equations having variable in the numerator. 

So this is how it went:

How do you solve:  x/4 = 2 

To read further, how did they eventually figured out to solve this problem, check this link:

http://rupeshgesota.blogspot.com/2018/06/i-had-given-them-enough-time-to.html

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Rupesh Gesota   Maths Educator, Program MENTOR
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