Question

Molly knows that 30% of the students at her school are boys and that there are 600 boys at her school. She wants to find the total number of students at the school, because she needs to order t-shirts for all the students.

What is the total number of students at Molly's school?

Answer 1

Explanation:

You ask yourself, "600 is 30% of how many students?". In equation form this looks like:

600 = .30x

Divide both sides by .30 and you'll get that the number of students is 2000