SOLUTION: A country has 221 mobile cellular telephones per 250 inhabitants. If the country's population is about 2,800,000 how many mobile cellular telephones does the country have? Please

Question 311482: A country has 221 mobile cellular telephones per 250 inhabitants. If the country's population is about 2,800,000 how many mobile cellular telephones does the country have? Please detail each step.
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A country has 221 mobile cellular telephones per 250 inhabitants.
If the country's population is about 2,800,000 how many mobile cellular
telephones does the country have?
:
let t = no. of telephones
:
Write a ratio equation
=
Cross multiply
250t = 221*2800000
:
250t = 618800000
t =
t = 2,475,200 telephones
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