document.write( "Question 146756: Fast Food. If four out of five doctors prefer fast food, then at a convention of 445 doctors, how many prefer fast food?\r
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Algebra.Com's Answer #107182 by nerdybill(7384)\"\" \"About 
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This is a problem in \"proportions\".
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\n" ); document.write( "Let x = doctors preferring fast food
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\n" ); document.write( "4/5 = x/445
\n" ); document.write( "(4/5)445 = x
\n" ); document.write( "4(89) = x
\n" ); document.write( "356 = x
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