SOLUTION: the school cafeteria surveyed the student body and discovered that 13/15 of the students listed pizza as their favorite lunch. There was a total of 78 students that liked pizza bes

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: the school cafeteria surveyed the student body and discovered that 13/15 of the students listed pizza as their favorite lunch. There was a total of 78 students that liked pizza best. how many students were in the student body? This question is from textbook

Answer by rmromero(383) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
What is asked in the problem?
How many students were in the student body?

Given:
13/15 of the student body like pizza as their favorite lunch.
78 of the students liked pizza best.

13/15 of the student body is 78.

Let x = the total number of the student body.

Translate the sentence to mathematical equation.

>>>>> multiply the reciprocal of 13/15

-----> There are 90 students in the student body.

Checking:
13/15 of 90 = 78
(13/15)90 = 78
78 = 78 ------------->>True

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