Question

The number of students at marita's school decreased to 98% of last year's number currently there are 1170 students how many students were there last year round to the nearest whole number

Answer 1

let's assume the last year's number is x
98/100 . x = 1170
98x = 117000
x = 117000/98
x = 1193.8
x ≈ 1194
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