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document.write( "If the company has 9,000 potential patients and for every 10 paying patients, I give 5 free tests, what is the total number of paying patients?  Can you please supply the formula so I can plug it in excel?  Thank you. </SPAN>\n" );
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document.write( "the company has 9000 potential patients.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "for every 10 paying patients, you will give 5 free test.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "what is the total number of paying patients?\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "if you mean that, for every 10 paying patients, you will take 5 free patients, then i would calculate the number of paying patients as follows:\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "the ratio of paying patients to total patients is 10/15 = 2/3\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "you have 9000 potential patients.\r<BR>\n" );
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document.write( "2/3 of them will be paying patients, so you will have 2/3 * 9000 = 6000 potential paying patients.\r<BR>\n" );
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