Question

Suppose 12% of students chose to study Spanish their freshman year, and that meant that there were 15 such students. How many students chose not to take Spanish their freshman year?

Answer 1

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