SOLUTION: Attendance this year at the homecoming football game is 142% of what it was last year. If last year's homecoming football game attendance was 48,000, what is this year's attend

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Question 1126949: Attendance this year at the homecoming
football game is 142% of what it was last year.
If last year's homecoming football game
attendance was 48,000, what is this year's
attendance? (Round to the nearest integer, if
necessary.)

Answer by ikleyn(52833)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
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This year attendance is  1.42*48000 = 68160 persons.

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