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# Car Repaors An automobile lealesrship has found that for every 140 cars sold, 23 will be brought back to the dealer for major repairs. If the dealership sells 980 cars this year, approximately how many cars will be brought back for major repairs?

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Car Repaors An automobile lealesrship has found that for every 140 cars sold, 23 will be brought back to the dealer for major repairs. If the dealership sells 980 cars this year, approximately how many cars will be brought back for major repairs?

It is given that for every 140 cars sold, 23 will be brought back to the dealer for major repairs. That means, the percentage of cars brought back for major repairs is $$\displaystyle\frac{{23}}{{140}}$$
Let x be the number of cars that will be brought back for major repairs this year.. Thus the perccentage of cars will be brought back for major repair is. $$\displaystyle\frac{{x}}{{980}}$$
As we are assuming that the same percentage of cars will be brought back for major repairs, that means, we can write the proportion: $$\displaystyle\frac{{23}}{{140}}=\frac{{x}}{{980}}$$
On multiply both sides by 980 we get $$\displaystyle{x}=\frac{{{23}\cdot{980}}}{{140}}=\frac{{22540}}{{140}}={161}$$