Suppose 60% of the graduating class in a certain high school goes to college. If 240 students from this graduating class are going to college, how many students are in the class?

400 total students

Step-by-step explanation:

The students representing the that go to college woulf be represented as so in the following equation:

To find the total amount of students, you change to a factor of . is a multiple of so we could divide both sides of the equation by to turn , like this:

To find the total, the equation must equal . To do this, you can multiply both sides by , like this:

According to your calculations, there are 400 students in the class.