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At a school 40%of six grade students said hop hop is there favorite kind of music. If 100 six grade students perfer hip hop music, how many six graders are at the school?

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if in the school there are 100 students prefer Hip Hop then we have to calculate the 100% with a rule of three so:


\begin{gathered} x\to100 \\ 100\to40 \end{gathered}

so the equation is:


\begin{gathered} x=(100\cdot100)/(40) \\ x=250 \end{gathered}

So in total there are 250 students

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