Question

what is 24 as a percentage?

Answer 1

what is the problem you are working on?

Answer 2

3 sharks
24 fish
18 crabs
4 dolphins
1whale
what percentage are fish?

Answer 3

ok, to do this you need to figure out the total number of sea creatures first. how many are there?

Answer 4

50

Answer 5

ok, 24 of the sea creatures are fish, so there are 24 out of 50.

Answer 6

so evaluate this fraction (24/50) to a decimal

Answer 7

could you help me with other things?

Answer 8

0.48?

Answer 9

sure, right!

Answer 10

thank you

Answer 11

now to get the percentage, you multiply by 100, .48*100 = ?

Answer 12

48?

Answer 13

right, so 48% are fish. so the formula would be: find the fraction, evaluate the fraction to decimal, then multiply by 100, add the % (percent) symbol.

Answer 14

thanks

Answer 15

22) which creature represents 8% of the total?

Answer 16

ok, so 8% = .08 = x/50

Answer 17

40?

Answer 18

not quite, you off by a factor of 10. so x = .08 * 50

Answer 19

16?

Answer 20

It's also easy to view it as: How many % does 1 creature represent?
If 50 = 100%, 25 = 50%

Answer 21

ok

Answer 22

pls help me !!! its due monday :(

Answer 23

no problem

Answer 24

thank you

Answer 25

how do i work it out?

Answer 26

Pick whatever style of approach you find is easiest, either the one I gave you, or the one dpflan did. Both are pretty much the same thing though but phrased differently. Think about the answers for a minute or two. Try to figure it out :)

Answer 27

is the ans 16?

Answer 28

If the answer would be 16, there should be a type of creature that actually has that amount represented. Is there?

Answer 29

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3 sharks
24 fish
18 crabs
4 dolphins
1whale

Answer 30

So no, the answer is not 16, right? Try to figure out a better answer that we can agree on. Go back to our earlier replies and think about it.