Question

7/17 = x/100
10/17 = x/100
how do I solve ?

Answer 1

how do i solve for x?

Answer 2

ok

Answer 3

let's look at 7/17 first

Answer 4

okay

Answer 5

ok, can you do long division?

Answer 6

yes

Answer 7

one way to isolate x is multiply both sides by 100 --> (7/17) * 100 = x / 100 * 100. therefore the left side is (7/17)*100 = x

Answer 8

so you do cross multiplication? wait. we have to do persentages of our class 7 girls and 10 guys for A total of 17 so how do i do that?

Answer 9

ok, so you can solve for 7/17. that would yield a decimal once you do the division. once you have the decimal, you then multiply that value by 100 to obtain the percentage

Answer 10

7/17 = .411767....

Answer 11

okay i got the .411764706

Answer 12

you can see that 7/17 + 10/17 = 17/17 which is 1. which would be 100%. Here we look at 7/17 which is .411767, which is 41.1767%. you see that multiplying .411767 by 100 moves the decimal point to the right

Answer 13

yes is do understand that.

Answer 14

do you think you can to solve for 10/17 as a percentage?

Answer 15

yes thank you so much!

Answer 16

cool, no problem