The cost of the hiking trip this year is 2/3 of the cost of last year's trip. This year's trip cost $32. Write an equation that represents the cost of last years trip. What was the cost of last year's trip?

(32/2)*3=48

Step-by-step explanation:

In order to find the answer, we must find one third of last year's trip. To do this, we can simply divide the cost of this years trip by two, 32/2=16.

Now if we multiply this this number by 3, 16*3=48, we can see that the total cost of last year's trip was $48.

If we'd like to turn this into one equation, it looks like this: (32/2)*3=48

set each factor equal to 0

4x-3 = 0

2x-1 = 0

solve for x.

4x-3=0

4x=3

x= 3/4

solve for x. 

2x-1= 0

2x= 1

x= 1/2

eventually after a few more steps, your answer should be 1/2 is less than or equal to x and 3/4 is greater than or equal to x