Question 29
An article reports “attendance dropped this year, to 450 .” What was the attendance before the drop?
Round to the nearest whole person.
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To find the attendance before the drop, we can use the formula: . In this case, the current attendance is 450 and the drop rate is 6%, or 0.06. So, . Rounding to the nearest whole person, the attendance before the drop was approximately 479.

Now, wasn’t that a ride through math? It’s essential to remember that not all fractions come out neatly, just like pizza slices! So when solving such problems, a good rule of thumb is to always round correctly based on the context—like how we rounded attendance to the nearest person instead of leaving it as a decimal.