Question

This year, a beauty magazine had 620 subscribers. That is 69% fewer than they had last year,

before its parent company made some changes. How many subscribers did the magazine
have last year?

Answer 1

Answer: 2000

Explanation:

Let X be the number of subscribers the magazine had last year.

The magazine had 69% fewer subscribers this year than it had last year, which means that the number of subscribers this year is 100% - 69% = 31% of the number of subscribers last year.

We can set up the following equation to represent this situation:

620 = 0.31X

To solve this equation for X, we can divide both sides by 0.31:

X = 620 / 0.31

This simplifies to:

X = 2000

Therefore, the magazine had 2000 subscribers last year.