15% of the toddlers in a preschool class drink water with their lunch. how many toddlers are in the class is 3 drink water with their lunch? a. write a proportion for the situation b. solve the problem show your work

If three drink water with their lunch, then this would be 15% of the toddlers in the class. We can therefore write a proportion where 100% of the class would be denoted x:



Solving this proportion we'll get:





ANSWER: There are 20 toddlers in the class.