Question

At a football game, 43% were supporting the visiting team. If total number of people attending the game was 2800, how many people were supporters of the home team?Help with the word problem.

Answer 1

Step-by-step explanation

Since 43% of the people supported the visiting team, 57% supported the home team.

`100\%-43\%=57\%`

Now, we can use a rule of three to find the number of people were supporters of the home team.

`\begin{gathered} 2800\rightarrow100\% \\ x\rightarrow57\% \end{gathered}`
`\begin{gathered} x=(2800*57\%)/(100\%) \\ x=(2800*57)/(100) \\ x=(159600)/(100) \\ x=1596 \end{gathered}`Answer

1596 people were supporters of the local team.