A company spends $450,000 on print advertising. Of that amount, the advertising director wants to spend 55% on magazine ads. How much of the print advertising budget will the director spend on magazine ads?

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Answer 1 · 2018-04-24T23:33:23

$247,500

You have to turn this into a proportion, which will look like this:

#x/450000^# = #55/100^#

To find the value of x, you have to multiply 450,000 by 55, from this you should get 24,750,000.

Then divide 24,750,000 by 100 to get 247,500.

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