solve returns a strange answer

Question:solve returns a strange answer

Posted: Yew Hong 15 Product: Maple

March 30 2012

Hi all, I am a teacher of middle/high school math. I have found that when I use the solve function on:

$x/3=(x+0.2)/15+1.5$

I get 5.674999999

In fact, as I was typing the above equation just now using Maple Math, I noticed it returns:

$x/3=(x+0.2)/15+1.5$

even though I typed 1.5 at the end.

Any idea what I can do to make it return 5.675 or even $227/40$ ?

Please do not suggest that I change the equation to fractions purely. Thanks.

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