Sid is $300 in debt. he needs to get the debt down to no more than $100 within the next 8 mouths .if he pays the same amount each mouth, what is the minimum he must pay off each mouth to manage this?

Problem number 26 of the rhind papyrus says: find a quantity such that when it is added to of itself the result is a 15. the modern day equation that models this problem is x + x = 15. what is the solution to the equation? x = 10 x = 12 x = 15 x = 30