In a recent year 36% of all college students were enrolled part time. If 6.2 million college students were enrolled part time that year what was the total number of college students. Round to the nearest million

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Meredith Pierce

7 May, 22:07

In a recent year 36% of all college students were enrolled part time. If 6.2 million college students were enrolled part time that year what was the total number of college students. Round to the nearest million

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Melody Haynes · Answer 1

If 36% equals 6,200,000, then

1% equals 6,200,000/36, and

100% equals 6,200,000/36*100 = 16,315,789

Hence, there were about 16,000,000 (sixteen million) students.