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Samartha Deva
 
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Default I have a question about Baker's Percentage

Brian Mailman wrote:
> TG wrote:
>
>> Brian Mailman wrote:
>>> Rich Hollenbeck wrote:
>>>
>>> > Thanks. I see I need to lay this out algebraicly.
>>>
>>> It's a quadratic equation.
>>>

>>
>> I don't think it is.

>
> I do.


Jeeez! Your freedom. Gfg-it!

From Will's formula:

x + .65x + .02x = 100

x + x(.65 + .02) = 100
x + x * .67 = 100
x (1 + .67) = 100 -> x = 100 / 1.67 = 59.88

normalize it:

x * 1.67 - 100 = 0

standard form: ax + b = 0 1st order, non-quadratic, on a graph, it
would give a straight line of some slope.

quadratic looks different:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratic_equation


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