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Ann-m
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In a game wizard is twice as powerful as an elf,an elf is 5 time as powerful as a trall,and a troll is one and half times as powerful as a dwarf. How many times more powerful than adwarf is a wizard?
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This is the English section.

Maths questions need to be asked in the Maths section.

Mods could you move this to Maths pls. Thanks DG
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In the meantime, just work backwards through the values :)
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I doubt the op did it knowingly dg, probably just clicked on wrong section!
I have done it many a time, all sorts end up scattered.

I have moved the query to Maths now, (hopefully)
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Ann-m wrote:In a game wizard is twice as powerful as an elf,an elf is 5 time as powerful as a trall,and a troll is one and half times as powerful as a dwarf. How many times more powerful than adwarf is a wizard?
The only way I can approach these things is by giving each item a value.

Eg, make wizard 60. What would that make elf? And so on.
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Post by masari_pirates »

How about the following

W = 2E

E = 5T

T = 1.5D

So W = 2 * 5 * 1.5 D
= 15 D

Wizard is 15 times more powerful than dwarf
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Post by Surferfish »

Like Toadmum said, easiest to work backwards and start with the dwarf.

So D = 1
T = 1.5 etc.
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masari_pirates wrote: W = 2E

E = 5T

T = 1.5D

So W = 2 * 5 * 1.5 D = 15 D

Wizard is 15 times more powerful than dwarf
Algebra is not needed here - it's easiest to work backwards with numbers from a dwarf.
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Guest55 wrote:
masari_pirates wrote: W = 2E

E = 5T

T = 1.5D

So W = 2 * 5 * 1.5 D = 15 D

Wizard is 15 times more powerful than dwarf
Algebra is not needed here - it's easiest to work backwards with numbers from a dwarf.
I'm glad that my suggestion turned out to be your way this time :) . Although momentarily having forgotten that a dwarf was part of the question I wondered why one would have to find one to get numbers from it :roll:

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