Given:
Mrs. Applegate owns of the business.
Mrs. Brown owns 3 times as much as Mrs. Charles.
To find:
The fractional part of the business that Mrs. Brown owns.
Solution:
Let Mrs. Charles owns x part of business.
Mrs. Brown owns 3 times as much as Mrs. Charles.
Mrs. Brown owns = 3x part of business.
Mrs. Applegate owns of the business.
Divide both sides by 4.
Now,
Mrs. Brown owns
Therefore, Mrs. Brown owns of the business.
Answer
Find out the percentage of students from the north side of the city in the program .
To prove
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 .