Question

A nursing school class graduated 36 students if the class suffered a dropout rate of 10% what was the original number of students in class

Answer 1

There's 36 students graduated, since the dropout rate is 10%, then it means 36 students represents 90% of the students that were in the class. We can create a rule of 3 as shown below:

`\begin{gathered} (90)/(100)=(36)/(x) \\ x=(36\cdot100)/(90) \\ x=40 \end{gathered}`

There were 40 students on the class.