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Eight new teachers were hired at plainville middle school. This represents 16% of the total number of teachers at the school, how many teachers work at plainville middle school? Show your work

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User Kcstricks
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Just multiply 8 times 16 which is 128 so that's how many teachers 128
User Elad Frizi
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0.16 and divide it by 8 new teachers and the answer that you get for how many teachers work at plainville middle school 0.02 which means that there is only 2% of the teachers who are not new at plainville middle school
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