if 500 students were at the assembly, then the number of students who were wearing spirit wear is 200 students.
Since we know that:
4/10 of every student is wearing spirit wear.
The total number of students was 500
Hence,
We can express this as:
4/10 x 500
=4 x 50
= 200
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