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.
