Question

The school you want to go to has an acceptance rate of 15%. That means that 15%of the students who apply to the school get in . The school took in 1800 students last year. How many students applied?

Answer 1

If you divide 15 by 100, you will get 0.15, multiply this by 1800, the amount of students that applied are 270.

Answer 2

If the school you want to go to only takes 15% of student who apply, and they took 1800 students, that means the amount of students whom applied are: 4,644 students applied to this school