In a recent year 27% of all college students were enrolled part time. If 5.1 million college students were enrolled part time that year what was the total number of college students? Round your answer to the nearest million

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To find the total number of college students, we need to divide the number of part-time students by the percentage of part-time students and then divide the result by 100.

Total number of college students = (Number of part-time students / Percentage of part-time students) * 100

Plugging in the given values:

Total number of college students = (5.1 million / 27%) * 100

= (5.1 million / 0.27) * 100

≈ 18.889 million

Rounding to the nearest million:

Total number of college students ≈ 19 million. Answer: \boxed{19}.