Question

A town has 3500 families who own a car. If this represents 28% of the
families in the town, how many families are there in total?
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Answer 1

Answer:

12500 people

Step-by-step explanation:

28x/100=3500

x=350000/28

x=12500

Answer 2

Answer:

▪︎GiveN -:

$\textsf{28 percent of families in town is = 3500 }$

▪︎To finD -:

$\textsf{Number of families in the town}$

▪︎TakeN -:

To find number of families in town :

$\boxed{N=\dfrac{100\:percent}{28\:percent}×3500}$

$\textsf{Where, }$

$\textsf{N = Number of families in town }$

▪︎SolutioN -:

$\implies{N=\dfrac{100\:percent}{28\:percent}×3500}$

So , after dividing 3500 by 28 % . We will get 125 families in 1 % of town .

$\implies{N=100×125}$

$\implies{N=12500}$

▪︎AnsweR -:

$\textsf{So,the number of families in the town is }$$\textsf{125000 families.}$