SOLUTION: Fast Food. If four out five doctors prefer fast food, then at a convention of 445 doctors, how many prefer fast food? Please help me solve this problem. Thanks

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: Fast Food. If four out five doctors prefer fast food, then at a convention of 445 doctors, how many prefer fast food?
Please help me solve this problem.
Thanks
This question is from textbook Elementary & Intermediate Algebra

Answer by Earlsdon(6294)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
You could use a proportion to solve this problem:
Solve for x. Multiply both sides by 445.


356 doctors prefer fast-food.

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