In a poll of 45,000 dentists, only 30 percent responded; of these, 20 percent claimed to prefer Toothpaste A. How many of the dentists who responded did not claim a preference for Toothpaste A?
A
2,200
B
2,640
C
6,160
D
8,800
E
10,800
Correct answer: E
Explanation
Find those who responded to the poll -
45000 x 3/10 = 4500 x 3 = 13500
Find those who responded who do not prefer toothpaste A -
Source: Algebra word problems from the AQuA-RAT dataset (Ling et al., 2017), published by Google DeepMind under the Apache License 2.0.
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