At a local shelter 36 people volunteered to prepare meals for disaster victims. if this represented 9/16 of the volunteers at the shelter, write and solve an equation to determine how many volunteers at the local shelter

64

Step-by-step explanation:

You can write the equation to solve this problem very easily by doing a rule of three:

9/16 --------- 36

16/16--------- x

This can be read as: if 36 people represent 9/16 of the volunteers at the shelter, then how many people (x) represent the total (16/16) of the volunteers at the shelter.

By solving the rule of three, you get the equation:

And then you solve:

So the total of the volunteers that help at the local shelter is 64.

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