A admin officer predicts that 20% of the students who are accepted will not attend college. According to this prediction, how many students should be accepted to achieve a planned enrollment of x students?
a) 1.05x
b) 1.1x
c) 1.2x
d) 1.25x
e) 1.8x
D
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it means 80% of accepted students will join the college.
since 80 % of accepted students=x
so accepted students=1.25x
since 80 % of accepted students=x
so accepted students=1.25x
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Plug in x=80. This represents the desired enrollment.Viper83 wrote:A admin officer predicts that 20% of the students who are accepted will not attend college. According to this prediction, how many students should be accepted to achieve a planned enrollment of x students?
a) 1.05x
b) 1.1x
c) 1.2x
d) 1.25x
e) 1.8x
D
For an enrollment of 80 students, 100 must be accepted (since 20% will not attend college).
Now we plug x=80 (the desired enrollment) into all the answer choices to see which yields 100 (the number of students that must be accepted).
Only answer choice D works:
1.25*80 = 100.
The correct answer is D.
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