Question

Mrs. Jenkins is catering a school dance and wants to know how manystudents prefer tacos and how many prefer hot wings.296 students preferred tacos63% of students preferred hot wings.How many students in total were attending the dance?

Answer 1

Let x represent the total number of students that attended the dance. This means that

number of students that prefer tacos + number of students that prefer hot wings = x

Percentage is expressed in terms of 100. If 63% of the students preferred hot wings, then the number of students that preferred hotwings is

63/100 * x = 0.63x

If 296 students preferred tacos, it means that

293 + 0.63x = x

x - 0.63x = 296

0.37x = 296

x = 296/0.37

x = 800

Thus, a total of 800 students attended the dance