document.write( "<A HREF=/cgi-bin/jump-to-question.mpl?question=179958>Question 179958</A>: <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> 28 students is 70% of how many students.  Do I multiply 70 x .28.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "In a word, no.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "What you suggest would be finding, in effect, the value representing 70% of 28. (even though you converted the wrong number to a decimal) Not the same question at all.  Besides, the result of multiplying 28 by .7 is 19.6, and where would one find .6 of a student, some students' poor study habits notwithstanding?  Still another sanity check is that if 28 is 70% of something, then that something has to be larger than 28.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The question says:  28 is 70% of what?  That means that you are looking for a value that when multiplied by 70% or 0.70 results in 28.  A good placeholder for an \"I don't know what\" is <i>x</i>.  So we need to translate the english sentence \"70% of a value I don't know is 28\" into algebraic symbols.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "'70%' means 0.70\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "'of' means multiply\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "'a value I don't know' means <i>x</i>\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "'is' means =\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "and 28 means 28\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Therefore:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Now, in order to get <i>x</i> by itself on the left so that we know its value, we need to divide by 0.70\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "John<BR>\n" );
document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=\"/cgi-bin/rendertex.cgi?\LARGE e^{i\pi} + 1 = 0\"><BR>\n" );
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