A school district needs 3 teachers for every 70 students. They expect to have 14,700 in the district next year. At this time they have 612 teachers. How many more teachers are needed.
We can use a proportion to find out the number of teachers that are needed.
3/70 = x/14,700
70x = 3 * 14,700
70x = 44,100
x = 630
630 teachers are needed altogether. Since there are already 612 teachers, the number of more teachers who are needed is the difference between 630 and 612.
