document.write( "Question 408676: If four out of five doctors prefer fast food, then at a convention of 445 doctors how many prefer fast food? Use a proportion to solve the problem \n" ); document.write( "

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document.write( "Let x represent how many of 445 doctors prefer fast food:
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document.write( "Question states*** four out of five doctors prefer fast food
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document.write( "    |cross multiplying to solve for x
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document.write( "   5x = 4*445
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document.write( "    x = 356\r
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document.write( "4/5 = 356/445 \n" );
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