Question

austin needs to memorize words on a vocabulary list for korean class.he has memorized 9 of the words which is one-third of the list.how many words are on the list?

Answer 1

we have that

9 words ------> correspond to 1/3 of the list

Let

x -----> total words of the list

we know that

the equation that represent this situation is

(1/3)x=9

solve for x

x=9(3)

x=27 words

therefore

answer is 27 words