Mr .cruz is the director of an after school program. he says that 170 or 85%of the students went on to attend collage. a parent wants to know the total number of students in the program

  200 students were in the program

Step-by-step explanation:

The parent should know how to figure ...

  170/85% = total/100%

This is the same as ...

  total = 170/0.85 = 200

200 students were in the program.

Critical Thinking

There are three declarative statements here. There is no question. We have made up a question to answer.

Another possible answer to the non-question could be, "The parent can ask his student how many students were in the program."

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step-by-step explanation:

we need to solve for 'x' the following equation:  

we have that:

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factorizing, we get that:

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then, the solutions are: or

nothing extraneous has been found!

answer: apothems is your answer

step-by-step explanation: hope u get it right