Question

98% of the mules who were surveyed said that stubbornness was a good character trait. If 343 mules gave this response, how many were surveyed in total?

Answer 1

Do a part over whole fraction

98% is a part of 100%

343 is a part of the number of mules who were surveyed in an unknown quantity.

You can set what you know into two proportions equal to each other:

`(98)/(100) =(343)/(x)`

***x is the unknown value

Now you can cross multiply/butterfly

98x = 34300

Isolate x by dividing 98 to both sides of the equation

98x/98 = 34300/98

x = 350

This means that a total of 350 mules were surveyed

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