Please help! I have a test and a teacher that cant teacher.
If 9 people can fit into a 3x3 feet square. Find the number of
people can fit into a rectangular street with 10 feet wide and 1
mile long.

Question

Please help! I have a test and a teacher that cant teacher.
If 9 people can fit into a 3x3 feet square. Find the number of
people can fit into a rectangular street with 10 feet wide and 1
mile long.

emilyngiron · Answer

teach*

codysek98 · Answer

If 9 people can fit into a 3x3, you know you can have one person per square foot. Multiply 10 feet by how many feet are in a mile and that should give you how many people you can fit.

emilyngiron · Answer

can you help with number 2? @codysek98 
Suppose a biologist captured and tagged 15 fish from a lake. The
tagged fish were released back into the lake. A sample was taken
some time later. In that sample there were 800 fish and only 5
were tagged. Predict how many fish in total are in the lake.