Suppose 8 out of every 20 students are absent from school less than five days a year. Predict how many students would be absent from school less than five days a year out of 40,000 students.
Set up a proportion as I showed you in your last post.
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To predict how many students would be absent from school less than five days a year out of 40,000 students, we can use proportions.
Step 1: Determine the proportion of students who are absent less than five days a year.
Out of every 20 students, 8 students are absent less than five days a year. We can represent this as a proportion:
(8 students absent less than 5 days) / (20 total students) = x / 40,000 total students
Simplifying this proportion, we get:
8/20 = x/40,000
Step 2: Solve for x.
To solve for x, we can cross-multiply:
8 * 40,000 = 20x
320,000 = 20x
Divide both sides of the equation by 20 to isolate x:
320,000 / 20 = x
16,000 = x
Therefore, we can predict that out of 40,000 students, around 16,000 students would be absent from school less than five days a year.