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A ski Gondola cabin can safely carry X number of people that are already 2/3 x people in the cabin went on another 15 or allowed to board it how many people are in the cabin carry

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30 people are already in the cabin.

If there’s 2/3 of the people that the cabin can carry, and 15 more can board, the 15 is the remaining 1/3, so to get the other 2/3 that we don’t know, you multiply 15 by 2, to get 30.

So all together, the cabin can carry 45 people.

Hope this helps!
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