Hampton Middle School is expecting 376 seventh-graders next year. This is 40% of the expected school enrollment. How many students are expected to enroll in the school next year?

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Hampton Middle School is expecting 376 seventh-graders next year. This is 40% of the expected school enrollment. How many students are expected to enroll in the school next year?

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Answer 1 · 2016-10-19T13:24:37

I got $940$

Explanation:

Let us call the total number of sudents $x$ ; this corresponds to $100%$ or the total number of stdents.
We can now relate the quantities with the percents as:
$(100%)/(40%)=x/376$
i.e. in "percent world" you have $40$ out of $100$ students while the corresponding in "students world" will be $376$ out o $x$ (the total).
Rearranging:
$x=(100cancel(%))/(40cancel(%))*376=940$ students in total.

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Hampton Middle School is expecting 376 seventh-graders next year. This is 40% of the expected school enrollment. How many students are expected to enroll in the school next year?

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