A school staff meeting had 80 teachers is attendance, 30 percent of whom were first year teachers. How many teachers at the meeting had taught for more than one year?

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Raquel Bentley

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20 August, 07:44

A school staff meeting had 80 teachers is attendance, 30 percent of whom were first year teachers. How many teachers at the meeting had taught for more than one year?

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Hoffman · Answer 1

Since only 30% of the teachers taught for one year, the remaining percentage of the teachers had taught for more than a year, or 70%.

70%=0.7

80 (0.7) = 56

56 teachers had taught for more than a year.