SAT percent question that tricks most students..

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[00:00:00]This easy SAT question tricks most students. In the sample, 80% of items are faulty. There's 88 faulty items. How many total items are in the sample? Can you solve it? Jackpot, this is D easy.

[00:00:11]So, maybe just multiply 80% * 88. That's 70.4, which is close to A.

[00:00:18]Wait, crap. It says 80% of the total items are faulty. So, 80% of, which means multiply, the total items would give us the number of faulty items. And 88 [music] is the number of faulty items. Bingo. Now we just got to find the number of total items. So, let's call that X. And 80% [music] is just.8.

[00:00:37]So, to get X all alone, we got to divide both sides by.8. [music] So, X = 88 /.8, which is 110. It's D.

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