Question

The freshman class at a major university contains 2736 students. This was a 24% decrease from the size of the freshman class the year before.What was the size of last year's freshman class?

Answer 1

Answer: 3392

Explanation:

Here they are looking for the previous years freshman class. In order to get that we need 100% of this years class plus 24%. So multiply this years class by 1.24 to get the answer.