SOLUTION: The number of people at this year's walkathon was 12% higher than last year. If 1344 people walked this year, how many people walked last year?

Question 32524This question is from textbook Algebra Structure and Method Book 1
: The number of people at this year's walkathon was 12% higher than last year. If 1344 people walked this year, how many people walked last year? This question is from textbook Algebra Structure and Method Book 1

Answer by ikdeep(226) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Let the number of people last year = x
and we are given that this year there is 12% increase ...so
number of people walked this year = x + 12%
or on solving we get = (112/100)x
now we are also given that 1344 people walked this year ....so we get
(112/100)x = 1344
multiply both sides by 100 and we get
112 = 134400
divide both sides by 112/ ,,,and we get ...
x = 1200
so number of people walked last year are 1200...
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