SOLUTION: 1. Solve using a proportion. If 2 out of 36 people have hamburgers for lunch, and there are 20 people in the cafeteria having hamburgers for lunch, how many people are in the

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Question 1062867: 1.
Solve using a proportion.
If 2 out of 36 people have hamburgers for lunch, and there are 20 people in the cafeteria
having hamburgers for lunch, how many people are in the cafeteria
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1.
Solve using a proportion.
If 2 out of 36 people have hamburgers for lunch, and there are 20 people in the cafeteria
having hamburgers for lunch, how many people are in the cafeteria
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1.
Solve using a proportion.
If 2 out of 36 people have hamburgers for lunch, and there are 20 people in the cafeteria
having hamburgers for lunch, how many people are in the cafeteria

of people are having hamburgers
With the number of people in the cafeteria being P, we get:
P, or number of people in the cafeteria =