Question

athy's customer base is 2/3 residential and 1/3 business . if she has 350 residential customers, how many total customers does she have?

Answer 1

The answer is 525

2/3 of residential = 350 customers. so you divide 350 by 2. Which is 175. 175•3= 525

Answer 2

Answer: She has 525 costumers.

Explanation:

We know that the costumer base is
`(2)/(3)` residential and
`(1)/(3)` business. This means that:

`(2)/(3)=350` residential customers

Let be "x" the total costumers Athy has and "y" the number of business costumers.

Then "x" must be:

`x=350+y`

Then, in order to find "y" , we need to multiply the number of residential costumers by
`(1)/(3)` and divide the product by
`(2)/(3)` :

`y=((350)((1)/(3)))/((2)/(3) )\\\\y=175`

Substituting we get that "x" is:

`x=350+175=525` costumers