Someone explain this step by step to me 1/2(c-8)=
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Answer:
70
Step-by-step explanation:
In this problem, 27 adults conduct a survey.
In the results of the survey, it is found that 35% of the adults are concerned with poverty.
If we call:
x = number of adults surveyed
y = adults concerned with poverty
This means that we can write the following relationship:
(1)
where represents the percentage of adults concerned with poverty, rewritten in decimal form (
)
Later, we are told that 200 adults are surveyed, so now we have
x = 200
So substituting into eq(1) we can find how many of these adults are concerned with poverty: