- In this question you must show all stages of your working.
A college offers only three courses: Construction, Design and Hospitality. Each student enrols on just one of these courses.
In 2019, there was a total of 1110 students at this college.
There were 370 more students enrolled on Construction than Hospitality.
In 2020 the number of students enrolled on
- Construction increased by \(1.25 \%\)
- Design increased by \(2.5 \%\)
- Hospitality decreased by \(2 \%\)
In 2020, the total number of students at the college increased by \(0.27 \%\) to 2 significant figures.
- Define, for each course, a variable for the number of students enrolled on that course in 2019.
- Using your variables from part (a)(i), write down three equations that model this situation.
- By forming and solving a matrix equation, determine how many students were enrolled on each of the three courses in 2019.