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65% of group of people have brown eyes. how many people are in the group if 260 people have brown eyes?

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This is a proportion problem.
65/100= 260/x
Cross multiply and divide
260 x 100= 26,000
26,000 divided by 65 is 400.
Answer is 400 people
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