SOLUTION: Can you please help me solve this problem using a proportion? Student-teacher ratio. The student-teacher ratio for Washington High was reported to be 27.5 to 1. If there are 42

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: Can you please help me solve this problem using a proportion?
Student-teacher ratio. The student-teacher ratio for Washington High was reported to be 27.5 to 1. If there are 42 teachers, then how many students are there?
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Answer by mbarugel(146) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Hello,
We know that "The student-teacher ratio for Washington High was reported to be 27.5 to 1". This means that there are 27.5 students for every 1 teacher. Translating this to algebraic language, we have:

where S is the number of students and T is the number of teachers.
Now, we're told that the number of teachers is 42. So T = 42. Plugging this into the equation we got above:

Therefore, there are 1,155 students

I hope this helps!
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