SOLUTION: Tech high school surveyed its freshmen and found that 3/4 of the freshmen own an iPod. If 240 freshmen have iPods, how many freshmen attend Tech High?
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Question 14263: Tech high school surveyed its freshmen and found that 3/4 of the freshmen own an iPod. If 240 freshmen have iPods, how many freshmen attend Tech High?
Answer by Alwayscheerful(414) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First set up an equation
Then in order to find out the total amount of students, we need a variable. Plug it next to the fraction.
Then get rid of the by multiplying it by its recipricol (flip the fraction upside-down)
You should get
Then solve.
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