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document.write( ": <I><SPAN STYLE=\"word-break: break-all;\"> Can you please help me solve this problem using a proportion?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Student-teacher ratio. The student-teacher ratio for Washington High was reported to be 27.5 to 1. If there are 42 teachers, then how many students are there?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "We know that \"The student-teacher ratio for Washington High was reported to be 27.5 to 1\". This means that there are 27.5 students for every 1 teacher. Translating this to algebraic language, we have:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=S+=+27.5T ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"S+=+27.5T\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" ><BR>\n" );
document.write( "where S is the number of students and T is the number of teachers.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Now, we're told that the number of teachers is 42. So T = 42. Plugging this into the equation we got above:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "<IMG STYLE=\"max-width:80%;\" SRC=/cgi-bin/plot-formula.mpl?expression=S+=+27.5%2A42+=+1155 ALIGN=MIDDLE  ALT=\"S+=+27.5%2A42+=+1155\"   DISABLED_style= \"max-width:90%; height:auto;\" >\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "Therefore, there are 1,155 students\r<BR>\n" );
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