SOLUTION: Professor Tsing meets five classes each day. One has 26 students, another has 33, and a fourth has 28 students. If this represents 78% of the students in her classes, what is the t
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: Professor Tsing meets five classes each day. One has 26 students, another has 33, and a fourth has 28 students. If this represents 78% of the students in her classes, what is the total number of students she teaches?
This question is from textbook New Progress in Mathematics
Answer by agosset(4) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
First we add all known classes:
This 87 represents 78% of all students
We want to find x that represents 100% of all students
We can write this relationship as:
We convert percentages to decimal values:
Number of total students = 112
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