SOLUTION: Since Knowledge of chemistry is useful even in nonscientific fields of study, a majority of the students elected to take chemistry. If 38 percent did not take chemistry and 248 stu

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: Since Knowledge of chemistry is useful even in nonscientific fields of study, a majority of the students elected to take chemistry. If 38 percent did not take chemistry and 248 students did take chemistry, how many students were there in all? This question is from textbook

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Answer by stanbon(75887) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If 38 percent did not take chemistry and 248 students did take chemistry, how many students were there in all?
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Let # of students be "x".
EQUATION:
0.62x = 248
x = 400
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Cheers,
Stan H.
Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
since 38% didnt take chemistry then 62% did.
lets call x the number of students in all.
:
.62x=248---->divide by .62
:
number of total students
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