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by BTGModeratorVI » Sun Feb 23, 2020 6:47 am

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A college admissions officer predicts that 20 percent of the students who are accepted will not attend the 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

Answer: D
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BTGModeratorVI wrote:
Sun Feb 23, 2020 6:47 am
A college admissions officer predicts that 20 percent of the students who are accepted will not attend the 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

Answer: D
Source: GMATPrep test
20 percent of the students who are accepted will not attend the college
In other words, 80 percent of the students who are accepted WILL ATTEND the college.
In other words, 4/5 of the students who are accepted WILL ATTEND the college.
We can write (4/5)(# accepted) = # who attend

Let x = # of students who attend.
We get the equation: (4/5)(# accepted) = x
Multiply both sides by 5/4 to get: # accepted = (5/4)x
Rewrite as: # accepted = 1.25x

Answer: D

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BTGModeratorVI wrote:
Sun Feb 23, 2020 6:47 am
A college admissions officer predicts that 20 percent of the students who are accepted will not attend the 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

Answer: D
Source: GMATPrep test
We can let y = the number of students that should be accepted to achieve a planned enrollment of x students. We predict that 80% of the students who are accepted will attend the college.Thus, we have:

0.8y = x

y = x/0.8 = 10x/8 = 1.25x

Answer: D

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