This season, Lisa's lacrosse team has won 2/3 of their home games (games played at Lisa's school), but just 2/5 of their away ga
mes (games played at other schools). In total, Lisa's team has won 26 games out of 49 games they have played. How many home games has Lisa's team played? Explain how you solved the problem.
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Answer:
28 million college students.
Step-by-step explanation:
We can represent all college students as x. This means that all part-time college students are . Because all part-time college students are also equal to 8.6 million, we have
. To find the number of total college students, or x, we have to multiply by 100/31 to get rid of the fraction on the other side:
The left side of the equation evaluates as . Because we are asked to round to the nearest million, we have to round to 28 million, which is the closest.