SOLUTION: The school you want to go to has an acceptance rate of 12%. That means that 12% of the students who apply to the school get in. The school took in 2,400 students last year. How man

Question 1076222: The school you want to go to has an acceptance rate of 12%. That means that 12% of the students who apply to the school get in. The school took in 2,400 students last year. How many students applied?
Found 2 solutions by josmiceli, ikleyn:
Answer by josmiceli(19441)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let = the number who applied
given:

20,000 applied

Answer by ikleyn(52814)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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There is a bunch of lessons on percentage problems
    - Percentage problems
    - Percentage word problems (Type 1 problems, Finding the Part)
    - Percentage word problems (Type 2 problems, Finding the Rate)
    - Percentage word problems (Type 3 problems, Finding the Base)
    - More complicated percentage problems
    - Problems on percentage that lead to unexpected results
in this site.

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