Problema Solution
The school you want to go to has an acceptance rate of 15%. That means that 15% of the students who apply to the school get in. The school took in 1800 students last year. How many students applied?
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Let 'x' represent the total number of students that applied.
0.15x = 1800
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x = 12,000 students
!2,000 students applied to the school.