SOLUTION: five out of every seven households have cable tv. if 42,000 households in a certain city have a tv, how many do not have cable tv?

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Question 272946: five out of every seven households have cable tv. if 42,000 households in a certain city have a tv, how many do not have cable tv?
Answer by JBarnum(2146)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

so if we multiply by a common 1

so 30000 homes have cable so
homes dont have cable

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