An article reports that "attendance dropped 5.19% this year, to 347." What was the attendance before the drop?
Let's take x as the starting quantity,
[tex]x\cdot(1-0.0519)=347[/tex][tex]0.9481x=347[/tex][tex]x=\frac{347}{0.9481}[/tex][tex]x\approx366[/tex]the attendance before the drop was approximately 366.
