Question

athy's customer base is 2/3 residential and 1/3 business . if she has 350 residential customers, how many total customers does she have?

Answer 1

The answer is 525

2/3 of residential = 350 customers. so you divide 350 by 2. Which is 175. 175•3= 525

Answer 2

Answer:  She has 525 costumers.

Step-by-step explanation:

We know that the costumer base is  $\frac{2}{3}$ residential and  $\frac{1}{3}$ business. This means that:

$\frac{2}{3}=350$ residential customers

Let be "x" the total costumers Athy has and "y" the number of business costumers.

Then "x" must be:

$x=350+y$

Then, in order to find "y" , we need to multiply the number of residential costumers by  $\frac{1}{3}$ and divide the product by $\frac{2}{3}$ :

$y=\frac{(350)(\frac{1}{3})}{\frac{2}{3} }\\\\y=175$

Substituting we get that "x" is:

 $x=350+175=525$ costumers