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the village was polyglot. if the ratio of bilingual denizens to trilingual denizens was 14 to 3 and the denizens totaled 3400 how many were trilingual

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bilingual : trilingual = 14 : 3

So, ...
trilingual : total = 3 : (14+3) = 3 : 17

The number of trilingual denizens was (3/17)*3400 = 600.
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