Question

65% of the trees in a park are pine trees.There are 26 maple trees in the park.What is the total amount of trees in the entire.

This is working with proportion

Answer 1

.65*26

Answer 2

wait

Answer 3

yeah is good i 2 was just confirming

Answer 4

If 65% are pine trees then that means that 35% are maple trees, assuming the park consists of just pine and maple trees

Answer 5

Ohh I read it wrong sorry

Answer 6

That means that 35% of x number of trees equals 26 maples trees
.35 x=26
x=74.286

Answer 7

that means that there are approx. 74 trees and if 26 of them are maple trees then that means that there are approx. 48.3 pine trees