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A book sold 42,500 copies in its first month of release. Suppose this represents 7.9% of the number of copies sold to date. How many copies have been sold to date?Round your answer to the nearest whole number.

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Given:

A book sold 42,500 copies in its first month of release. Suppose this represents 7.9% of the number of copies sold to date.

Required:

Total number of copies sold to date.

Step-by-step explanation:

42500 is just 7.9% of total copies

we need to find total copies

for this

take x number of total copies


\begin{gathered} x*(7.9)/(100)=42500 \\ \\ x=537974.68\approx537975 \end{gathered}

Final answer:

Total number of copies is 537975

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