document.write( "Question 439680: At a recent baseball game, the home team was losing so badly that 25% of the 4,280 fans left after the seventh inning. By the beginning of the ninth inning, another 50% of the remaining fans had left.
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document.write( "•How many fans were left in the stadium at the beginning of the ninth inning?
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document.write( "•What percentage of the 4,280 fans had left by the beginning of the ninth inning?
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document.write( "(im just a bit lost as to how to figure out the 2nd part of the question my work is below any help would be greatly appreciated)thank you again:)\r
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document.write( "PART A\r
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document.write( "4,280 * .25 = 1,070 --> 4,280 - 1,070 = 3,210
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document.write( "(.25)=25%\r
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document.write( "3,210 is the number of fans left after the seventh inning.\r
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document.write( "at the end of 7th inning 3,210 fans are left 50% leave by the begining of the 9th inning\r
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document.write( "3,210 * .5 = 1,605 remaining fans at the end of the 9th :D\r
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