Mr.Smith's art class has a total of 35 students enrolled. Seven of the thirty five are girls. What percent of the class is made up of boys?
✡ Answer: 80% ✡
- - Why?
Well if there is 35 kids in the class and 7 of them are girls, you can subtract 35-7 to get the reaming total of kids, in this case, the boys.
Now we have a fraction of 28/35
2835.
Lets convert it to a percent:
- - We have
Divide
28 ÷ 35 = 0.8
Always multiply by 100
0.8100
- - Solve:
80%
✡Hope this helps✡