Question

Last year a state university received 3,560 applications from boys,of those applications,35%were from boys who lived in other states .applications due to the university from boys represented 40% of all applications .how many applications did the university receive in all?

Answer 1

$\frac{3560}{x} = \frac{40}{100}$40x=356000 x= 8900 applications 

you make x the number of total applications