At the 2002 Winter Olympics, Austria won 2 gold medals. This was 1/8 of the total medals Austria won

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At the 2002 Winter Olympics, Austria won 2 gold medals. This was 1/8 of the total medals Austria won. How many did Austria win?

Let t be the total medals Austria won. We have:
2 = x/8

Cross multiply, we get:
x = 2 * 8
x = 16