SOLUTION: there are currently 100,000 people in a stadium watching a soccer game. when the game ends, about 3% of the crowd will leave the stadium each minute. at this rate, how many minutes

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Question 1179397: there are currently 100,000 people in a stadium watching a soccer game. when the game ends, about 3% of the crowd will leave the stadium each minute. at this rate, how many minutes will it take for 3/4 of the crowd to leave the stadium
pls help and have step by step if u can i am so confused with this lesson :(

Found 2 solutions by MathLover1, MathTherapy:
Answer by MathLover1(20850)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

there are currently people in a stadium watching a soccer game
when the game ends, about % =of the crowd will leave the stadium minute . at this rate,

the crowd will leave the stadium at rate

how many minutes will it take for of the crowd to leave the stadium




it will it take for of the crowd to leave the stadium

Answer by MathTherapy(10552)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

there are currently 100,000 people in a stadium watching a soccer game. when the game ends, about 3% of the crowd will leave the stadium each minute. at this rate, how many minutes will it take for 3/4 of the crowd to leave the stadium
pls help and have step by step if u can i am so confused with this lesson :(
You can set this up as a PROPORTION:   
With 3% being .03, and time taken for of crowd to leave, we get:
.03T = .75 ------ Cross-multiplying
Time taken for of crowd to leave, or
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