Question

On a particular Saturday, 60% of the visitors to an art museum were students. If 144 visited the museum, how many total visitors did the art museum have that day?

Answer 1

Answer:

240 visitors

Step-by-step explanation:

We are given the following in the question:

Percentage of visitors that are student to art museum = 60%

Total number of students to museum = 144

We have to find the total number of visitors to the museum.

Let x be the total number of visitors to the museum.

Thus, we can write the equation:

$60\%\times x = 144\\\\\dfrac{60}{100}\times x = 144\\\\\Rightarrow x = 144\times \dfrac{100}{60}\\\\\Rightarrow x = 240$

Thus, there were 240 visitors to the art museum on that day.