SOLUTION: Bryan Berg built an 83 story house of cards. He used 27,000 playing cards. At this same rate, about how many cards would it take to build a 100-story house of cards? Round to the n

Question 923711: Bryan Berg built an 83 story house of cards. He used 27,000 playing cards. At this same rate, about how many cards would it take to build a 100-story house of cards? Round to the nearest whole number. Thanks for your help.
Answer by ankor@dixie-net.com(22740) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Bryan Berg built an 83 story house of cards.
He used 27,000 playing cards.
At this same rate, about how many cards would it take to build a 100-story house of cards?
Round to the nearest whole number.
:
A ratio equation
Let c = no. of cards to build a 100 story house
=
Cross multiply
83c = 27000 * 100
83c = 2700000
c = 2700000/83
c = 32,530 cards
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