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Thank you We sneak in and here's your smoke to

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your brought to you by car dealerships and you thought

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peer pressure was tough All right alexis owns a car

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dealership On average she sells a car to six sevenths

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of the customers who she meets in person If she

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sold twenty four cars last week then how many customers

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did she meet in person and here the potential answers

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So alexis owns car dealership Good for alexis and her

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father told her she'd never amount to anything She's selling

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a car Two six seven silver customers In other words

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she's sweet talking six out of every seven potential buyers

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into driving off a lot in a new ride That's

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Pretty decent rate We have to assume he's really good

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at getting out of parking tickets too Now a question

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wants to know at her average rate of sale How

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many customers did she meet in person if she sold

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twenty four hearts So the easiest way to deal with

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a problem like this is yeah just throw out the

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ratio with proportion Well we know that for every six

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customers who bought a car there was one who said

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nothing of twenty four of them cave How many were

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unimpressed We can say that six is this seven equals

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twenty four over something and we'll cleverly call that something

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acts rather than something And alec and cross multiply six

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times X equals twenty four times seven Got it while

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twenty four seven hundred sixty eight Six x equals one

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hundred sixty eight and we divide both sides by six

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Got acts on this side and then six sixteen well

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with over x equals twenty eight Don't make sense If

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you think about it you alexis get six yeses to

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everyone No then when she has four times as many

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yeses twenty four should have four times as many nose

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and indeed she does So our answer is c twenty

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eight but don't let alexis persuade you otherwise She'll talk 00:01:56.598 --> [endTime] you into choosing d we just know it

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