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To cut costs while maintaining the quality of education, one of the board members of a school district proposed to have the number of teachers vary directly as the number of students in a classroom. She proposed 12 teachers to teach a student body of 228 students. How many teachers would be needed if the school grows to 398 students?

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you should need 21 teachers
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