A school library needs four computer for every 7 students. If the school has 280 students, how many computers does it need?
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The school needs
Explanation:
School needs
Explanation:
We can read from this that for every group of
It will help to find out how many groups of
Each group should have 4 computers:
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We can also do this by direct proportion where we compare the number of students with the number of computers.
#7x = 280 xx 4#
#x = (280 xx4)/7#
#x = 160#