Answer:
56 senators
Step-by-step explanation:
If the bill passed 7 to 3 then 7 out of every 10 senators voted to pass the bill. You can write this as 7/10. You are trying to find how many senators out of 80 voted to pass the bill. You can write this as x/80. To solve it, you set them equal and solve for x.
[tex]\frac{7}{10}[/tex]=[tex]\frac{x}{80}[/tex] Multiply both sides by 80 to get:
80*[tex]\frac{7}{10}[/tex]=x Multiply 80 and 7/10 to get:
56=x
Sorry about the weird formatting on the fractions
