a town with a pop of 27530 has voted to allot 37.5% of the entire bidget to education. If the educatio budget is $285,000 what is the total budget>
2007-01-22 15:31:59 · 6 answers · asked by surfer_gal94 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
37.5% = 0.375
0.375x = 285000
x = 285000 / 0.375
= $760000.
2007-01-22 15:42:47 · answer #1 · answered by S. B. 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The population doesn't really matter. That number was just thrown in to throw you off. You have to take the amount of the education budget, $285,000 and divide by 37.5% to obtain the overall budget or a total of $760,000. You can check the figures by taking the $760,000 and multiplying that by 37.5% and you get your education budget of $285,000. :)
Hey, Zatz. How can $285,000 be more than a third (or 33.3%) of $7,600,000? Sorry, that's not the correct answer. One too many zeroes.
2007-01-22 23:40:42 · answer #2 · answered by ♫ frosty ♫ 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
How to find percentage:
You take whatever the percentage is equal to over the total. Since we dont' know what the total is we'll use the value "x" so: 285000/x
take the percentage over 100% so: 37.5/100
cross multiply by multiplying the numerator of the first equation with the denominator of the second equation and vis versa
285000/x = 37.5/100
285,000*100=37.5*x
28500000=37.5x
solve like any other equation
7,600,000=x
2007-01-22 23:43:18 · answer #3 · answered by Tiff 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
$285,000 X 100 / 37.5 = $760,000
2007-01-22 23:39:12 · answer #4 · answered by Stag S 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
285 divided by 3/8 I mean
2007-01-22 23:36:02 · answer #5 · answered by greatkid809 4 · 0⤊ 3⤋
i love Tiff thats the correct answer
2007-01-22 23:52:20 · answer #6 · answered by Zatz 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋