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Recalling the Step-by-Step Solution and Verification of a Routing Proportion
In your role as an Operations Assistant at a logistics company, you are drafting a training guide for a new standard operating procedure. Your company uses the ratio of regional delivery trucks () to total delivery trucks () represented by the proportion to optimize routing efficiency.
To ensure the new hires fully understand how this proportion is handled, write a brief guide that outlines the complete step-by-step algebraic process to solve for and explains how to verify that the final answer is correct. Your explanation must explicitly recall and describe:
- The initial step to eliminate the denominators (using the least common denominator of ).
- The distribution step that simplifies the equation to .
- The method used to isolate the variable terms to get .
- The final division to find the solution .
- The verification step where the solution is substituted back into the original proportion to yield .
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