Question

A dance school has 70 salsa dancers. If 14% of the total number of dancers in the school are salsa dancers, what is the total number of dancers in the school?

500
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860

Answer 1

Can you think of any formulas that might be helpful for this problem?

Answer 2

@JoannaBlackwelder divide the 70 by the 14%?

Answer 3

Right, great! Just make sure to use 14% as a decimal. :-)

Answer 4

So, what does that give you?

Answer 5

@JoannaBlackwelder 50

Answer 6

Are you sure your wrote that answer correctly? That isn't one of the options.

Answer 7

@JoannaBlackwelder Would it be 500 but Ijust add another 0?

Answer 8

Yep, I get 500, 70/.14=500

Answer 9

@JoannaBlackwelder Thank you so much!

Answer 10

No worries :-)