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You're standing in a line-up at the movie theatre. If 40% of the people in line are in front of you
and 584% of the people in the line are behind you, then the total number of people in the queue is
a) 36 b) 60 c) 99 d) 100e) 167
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584% is TOOOOOOOOOOOOO much.
If the correct number is 58.4% then the solution is as follows.
Let x be the number of people in the line.
From the given part, we have this equation
0.4x + 1 + 0.584x = x,
or
1 = x - 0.4x - 0.584x
1 = (1-0.4-0.584)x
1 = 0.016x
x = = 62.5 persons in the line.
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