Question

An article reports "attendance dropped 7% this year, to 6854." What was the attendance before the drop? (Round your answer to the nearest whole number.)

Answer 1

Answer:

7370

Step-by-step explanation:

Let x represent attendance before drop.

We have been given that an article reports attendance dropped 7% this year, to 6854. We are asked to find the attendance before the drop.

Since attendance dropped by 7%, this means that attendance after drop was 93% of x.

We can represent this information in an equation as:

$x-\frac{7}{100}x=6854$

$x-0.07x=6854$

$0.93x=6854$

$\frac{0.93x}{0.93}=\frac{6854}{0.93}$

$x=7369.89247$

$x\approx 7370$

Therefore, the attendance before drop was 7370.