In a recent year, 31% of all college students were enrolled part-time. If 8.6 million college students were enrolled part-time that year, what was the total number of college students?
Round your answer to the nearest million.

28 million college students.

Step-by-step explanation:

We can represent all college students as x. This means that all part-time college students are . Because all part-time college students are also equal to 8.6 million, we have . To find the number of total college students, or x, we have to multiply by 100/31 to get rid of the fraction on the other side:

The left side of the equation evaluates as . Because we are asked to round to the nearest million, we have to round to 28 million, which is the closest.

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