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Last summer, Mike received a tip from 35% of his babysitting customers. If he had 20 customers, how many customers gave Mike a tip?

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To solve you'll set up a proportion.

35/100 = x/20

cross multiply.

100x = 700

Now divide by 100.

x = 7
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7 I think because you multiply 20 times 0.35