In August 85% of the middle school students voted in a school election the number of students vote it was 544 how many students are in the middle school?

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Ace Frost

31 May, 06:38

In August 85% of the middle school students voted in a school election the number of students vote it was 544 how many students are in the middle school?

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Rodrigo Brock · Answer 1

544 students voted. This is 85% of the total number of students.

I do this:

544/x = 85/100

Then I isolate x

x = 544/0.85

so x = 640

There are 640 students.