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First tell what operation you will use and WHY. There were 346 applicants to the Fine Arts magnet school in the city.Of those applicants, 3/8 were accepted into the program. How many of the applicants
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First tell what operation you will use and WHY. There were 346 applicants to the Fine Arts magnet school in the city.Of those applicants, 3/8 were accepted into the program. How many of the applicants were accepted into the program?

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Answer: 129

3/8 = x/346

346 x 3 = 1038

1038/8 = 129.75

Since there wouldn’t be 0.75 of a person, and the answer can only account for “whole” applicants, that 0.75 would be dropped in the answer rather than rounding up.
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