SOLUTION: 1. An elementary school maintains a student to teacher ratio of 24 to 1. if the school enrolls 864 students how many teachers does the school employ? round to the nearest whole

Question 1003456: 1. An elementary school maintains a student to teacher ratio of 24 to 1. if the school enrolls 864 students how many teachers does the school employ?
round to the nearest whole number
Answer by fractalier(6550) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You can set up a proportion

and solve that, but in this case it is just easier to divide 864 by 24 and get
864/24 = 36 teachers
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