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document.write( ": <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> A survey showed that the ratio of telephones to people in the world was 1:8. Of the world's telephones 0.012% were in Ethopia . In ethopia 0.2% of the population had telephones. At the time of the survey there were 4000 million people in the world. What was the population of Ethopia?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( " Of the world's telephones 0.012% were in Ethopia. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "In ethopia 0.2% of the population had telephones. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "At the time of the survey there were 4000 million people in the world. <BR>\n" );
document.write( "What was the population of Ethopia?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "let p = population of Ethiopia<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Find out how many telephones in the world (in millions)<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=1%2F8 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"1%2F8\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >*4000 = 500 million telephones<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "It says,\"the world's telephones 0.012% were in Ethiopia.\" therefore<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Change .012% to decimal<BR>\n" );
document.write( ".00012 * 500,000,000 = 60,000 telephones<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "It says,\"In Ethiopia 0.2% of the population had telephones.\", therefore:<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Change .2% to decimal<BR>\n" );
document.write( ".002p = 60000<BR>\n" );
document.write( "p = <IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=60000%2F.002 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"60000%2F.002\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" ><BR>\n" );
document.write( "p = 30,000,000 people<BR>\n" );
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