SOLUTION: approximately 3 out of every 10 students at Greg's college live on campus. the college has 6,000 students. how many of them live on campus?

Question 374263: approximately 3 out of every 10 students at Greg's college live on campus. the college has 6,000 students. how many of them live on campus?

Answer by sophxmai(62) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
If 3 of 10 students live on campus, how many live on campus of there are 6000 students?

3 of 10 students can be written as a fraction,

Let x be the number of students who live on campus if there are 6000 students.
This can be written as .

From here, you can put the two together, =
because for every 10 students in the 6000 population, 3 of them live on campus.

Now, you have to solve for x.
=
Multiply both sides by 6000
6000()=6000()
1800=x
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