SOLUTION: If 2 out of every 9 trees in a forest containing 831,762 trees are cedars, how many trees in the forest are not cedars?

SOLUTION: If 2 out of every 9 trees in a forest containing 831,762 trees are cedars, how many trees in the forest are not cedars?

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Question 1169330: If 2 out of every 9 trees in a forest containing 831,762 trees are cedars, how many trees in the forest are not cedars?
Answer by ikleyn(52852) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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Then   of 831,762 trees are not cedars.


ANSWER.  646926 trees are not cedars.

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