Suppose 12% of students chose to study Spanish their freshman year, and that meant that there were 15 such students. How many st

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udents chose not to take Spanish their freshman year?

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Allisa [31] · Answer 1 · 2022-08-31T17:24:59+03:00

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Answer:

110

Step-by-step explanation:

If 12% studied Spanish, then 88% did not. The ratio of those who did not to those who did is ...

88 : 12 = 22 : 3

Then the number of students who did not study Spanish is ...

(22/3)×15 = 110 . . . . did not study Spanish