Question

Can someone help me set this up? I will medal and fan.

A school District needs 3 teachers for every 70 children. They expect to have 14,700 children in the district next year. At this time the have 612 teachers. How many more teachers are needed?

Answer 1

Set up a proportion.

Answer 2

\(\sf \dfrac{3}{70} = \dfrac{x}{14700}\)

Cross multiply and solve for 'x'.

Answer 3

Can you do that?

Answer 4

Yeah i can. Thank you!

Answer 5

Okay, after you find 'x', that will be the number of teachers they need, so subtract it from 612 to see how many more they need.

Answer 6

Okay

Answer 7

18 teachers. Thank you very much

Answer 8

Yep, you got it..