This is stupid, but what would the answer be to this problem, 3x/5y?

Question

Yeah 3x over 5y

thanks!

Answer 1

All that you can do with 3x/5y is simplify it into

= (3/5)(x/y)

= 0.6x/y

But you can't solve for x and y with what little information you supplied.

In order to solve an equation with two variables, you would need two complete equations.

An example would be

3x/5y = 15 (first complete equation)

and

2x + 4y = 20.(second complete equation)

There is enough information in my example to solve for x and y.