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Find out the percentage of students from the north side of the city in the program .
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Formula
As given
A magnet school program was set up to bring in students from all over the city. With the first 112 students .
the magnet program had 50% from the south side of town, 12.5% from the north side l, and 37.5% from the east side.
12 .5 % is written in the decimal form.
= 0.125
North side student be = 0.125 × 112
= 14
As given
If 6 more student from the north side and 2 students from the west side side enrolled in the program .
than north side student becomes = 14 + 6
= 20
Total number of student becomes = 112 + 6 + 2
= 120
put in the above formula
= 16.66% (approx)
Therefore 16.66% (approx) students from the north side of the city in the program .