Hakeem gave out a survey to some students in his school about their favorite color. 325 of those surveyed said their favorite color was red. If 65% of the students surveyed said their favorite color was red how many students were surveyed in total?
we mark the total number of students who were surveyed X from the given data, we know 65% of X is 325 we put that in a formula: 0.65 × X = 325 divide both sides by 0.65:
