SOLUTION: The crowd watching a high school baseball game currently included 60 women. Soon 100 more women arrive, which doubles the percentage of women in the crowd. How large was the crowd

SOLUTION: The crowd watching a high school baseball game currently included 60 women. Soon 100 more women arrive, which doubles the percentage of women in the crowd. How large was the crowd

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: The crowd watching a high school baseball game currently included 60 women. Soon 100 more women arrive, which doubles the percentage of women in the crowd. How large was the crowd before the 100 women arrived? This question is from textbook Applied College Algebra

Answer by checkley71(8403) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
2(60/X)=160/(x+100) or 120/x=160/(x+100) or 160x=120x+12,000 or 40x=12,000 or
x=300 original crowd
proof 2(60/300)=160/(300+100) or 120/300=160/400 or .4=.4
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