SOLUTION: In a local town 36,000 families have incomes less than $30,000 per year. This number of families is 80% of the families that had this income level 6 years ago. What was the numbe

Question 1154685: In a local town 36,000 families have incomes less than $30,000 per year. This number of families is 80% of the families that had this income level 6 years ago. What was the number of families who had incomes less than 30,000 per year 6 years ago?
Answer by ikleyn(52810) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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From the condition,


    36000 = 0.8*x


    x =  = 45000.    ANSWER

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