To decorate for a party, simon needs 1,850 centimeters of colorful streamers. if the ratio of meters to centimeters is 1 : 100, how many meters of streamers does he require?

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step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!