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document.write( "What is the formula that I would use? Thank you </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "What is the formula that I would use?<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "There is not always a formula, sometimes you have to figure it out.<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "The 80 students who did not answer correctly are 84% of the class, 100% - 16%.<BR>\n" );
document.write( "s = # of students<BR>\n" );
document.write( "84% of s = 0.84s<BR>\n" );
document.write( "0.84s = 80<BR>\n" );
document.write( "s = 80/0.84 =~ 95.23<BR>\n" );
document.write( "Since there can't be a fraction of a student,<BR>\n" );
document.write( "s = 95 students<BR>\n" );
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