Given that:
- The width of each of John’s notebooks is:
[tex]\frac{3}{4}in[/tex]- The space remaining on his bookshelf is:
[tex]36in[/tex]Let be "x" the number of notebooks that will fit in John's bookshelf.
Knowing that:
[tex]\frac{3}{4}in=0.75in[/tex]You can set up the following proportion:
[tex]\frac{1}{0.75}=\frac{x}{36}[/tex]Now you have to solve for "x":
[tex]\begin{gathered} (\frac{1}{0.75})(36)=\frac{x}{36} \\ \\ \frac{36}{0.75}=x \end{gathered}[/tex][tex]x=48[/tex]Hence, the answer is:
[tex]48\text{ }notebooks[/tex]