At the 2002 Winter Olympics, Austria won 2 gold medals. This was 1/8 of the total medals Austria won

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    At the 2002 Winter Olympics, Austria won 2 gold medals. This was 1/8 of the total medals Austria won. How many did Austria win?

    Let t be the total medals Austria won. We have:
    2 = x/8

    Cross multiply, we get:
    x = 2 * 8
    x = 16
     
    math_celebrity, Jan 8, 2022
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