## anonymous 3 years ago help with story problems pleaseeeee??????

1. anonymous

2. anonymous

10.) a college brochure claims that 24% of the students attending the college are majoring in business. if there are 420 students at the college who are majoring business, how many students are attending the college????

3. anonymous

babe, its simple all you gotta do is (24*420)/100

4. anonymous

$\frac{ 24 }{ 100 }*420$

5. anonymous

$420 \div .24$

6. anonymous

Stop the babe stuff too by the way, kinda demeaning.

7. anonymous

another example is a% of b is $\frac{ a }{ 100}*b$

8. anonymous

why your butt is hurt lol

9. anonymous

lol

10. anonymous

11. anonymous

he is...

12. anonymous

Lmao, ok. but yeah... one step. $420\div .24$

13. anonymous

you say 420/24 but its my life said 24 times 420/100 idk whose right???

14. anonymous

No, .24

15. anonymous

There is a decimal point there.

16. anonymous

yeah but that doesn't answer the question idk which one of u is right u both told me two different things

17. anonymous

$x\times .24 = 420$ x = total number of students solve for x

18. anonymous

if you cant sustain my words i dont care mr. austin ..and i call it this way and girls like it :D by the way babe, answer is , you gotta calculate $\frac{ 24 }{ 100 }*420$

19. anonymous

did you get it @caitlynmcdaniel

20. anonymous

yes

21. anonymous

but I got 1750 for answer

22. anonymous

10.) a college brochure claims that 24% of the students attending the college are majoring in business. if there are 420 students at the college who are majoring business, how many students are attending the college? There are 420 students MAJORING IN BUSINESS. That means that 420 is a portion of a larger student body. 420 is 24% of the rest of the main student body. So therefore, you have $mainstudentbody \times 24percent = 420$ 24% = .24 You need to solve for the total number of students attending the college. @itsmylife your method is incorrect. You are finding 24% of the 24%.

23. anonymous

oh gotcha sorry for my mistake ....let me correct it

24. anonymous

thanks guys... next question

25. anonymous

then how do u solve it??? if u messed up @itsmylife????

26. anonymous

let's say there are x students then it means 24% of the x is = to 420 $\frac{ 24 }{ 100}*x=420, x=\frac{ 420*100 }{ 24 }$ babe you can do it now ;)

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28. anonymous

thanks

29. anonymous

welcome ;)