A college dormitory houses 210 students. This fall, rooms areavailable for 76 fr

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A college dormitory houses 210 students. This fall, rooms areavailable for 76 freshmen. On the average, 95% of thosefreshmen who request room applications actually reserve aroom. How many room applications should the college send outif it wants to receive 76 reservations? A land investment company purchased a parcel of land for$7200. After having sold all but 20 acres at a profit of $30 peracre over the original cost per acre, the company regained theentire cost of the parcel. How many acres were sold? My assignment is due on Tuesday so a fast response would bemost helpful! thanks so much! A college dormitory houses 210 students. This fall, rooms areavailable for 76 freshmen. On the average, 95% of thosefreshmen who request room applications actually reserve aroom. How many room applications should the college send outif it wants to receive 76 reservations? A land investment company purchased a parcel of land for$7200. After having sold all but 20 acres at a profit of $30 peracre over the original cost per acre, the company regained theentire cost of the parcel. How many acres were sold? My assignment is due on Tuesday so a fast response would bemost helpful! thanks so much!

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If the college sends out x room applications to students whorequest one, it expects .95x to be returned. .95 is 19/20, so for every 20 applications it sends, 19 studentsrequest a room. 76 rooms to give out, 76 = 19*4, so it needs to send 20*4 = 80applications

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