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The ratio of students that wear glasses to students that do not wear glasses is 1:4. If there were a total of 30 students. How many students wear glasses?

User Greg Flynn
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Answer:

34

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User Rana Jayant
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Answer:

6

Explanation:

For every 5 students, 1 wears glasses and 4 don't. If you take the total number of students, 30, and divide it by 5, you have 6 groups of 5 students. There will be 1 student for each of those groups wearing glasses, or 6 students.

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