To solve this you put it into a ratio the number of students that like it will go on top and the total college students will be on bottom 5/8 if a college has a total of 4000 students, that will go on bottom and x will be on top x/4000 to solve for x you would multiply 5 by 4000, and then divide by 8 this would give you x=2500
5 out of 8 turned into a fraction is 5/8. 5/8 turned into a percentage is 62.5%. 62.5% of 4,000 is 2,500. 2,500 students in the college like algebra. Hope this helped.
you have to find the area of the rectangle at the bottom and then find the area of the 2 long triangles and the 2 small triangles and add them together
