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Question 171327: About two twenty fifth of the male population in the world cannot distinguish red from green. If there are fourteen boys in the ninth grade that cannot distinguish red from green, about how many ninth grade boys are there in all. write and solve an equation to find the answer. Answer by Mathtut(3670) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! if the ratio of the world is the same for these 9th grade boys then 2/5 of the 9th graders(we will call the total t) will not be able to distinguish red from green. number that cannot distinguish red from green we will call c and we have the number that fit this category as 14
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equation would be .4(t)=c
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.4t=14
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