High School

Out of 12 students who entered the auditorium, 8 had a backpack. If there are 600 students in the school, how many students can be expected to have a backpack?

Answer :

Final answer:

So we can expect that 400 students in the school will have a backpack.

Explanation:

To find out how many students can be expected to have a backpack, we can set up a proportion.

We know that out of 12 students, 8 had a backpack.

So we can write the proportion as:

[tex]\frac{8}{12}= \frac{x}{600}[/tex]

To solve for x, we can cross multiply and then divide:

8 * 600 = 12 * x

x = 400

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