Find the percent of each school day (based upon a 24-hour day) budgeted for the following activites.
Find to the nearest whole percent. Show all of your work.

Question

Find the percent of each school day (based upon a 24-hour day)  budgeted for the following activites.
Find to the nearest whole percent.  Show all of your work.

anonymous · Answer

Sleep 7.5 hrs.

anonymous · Answer

School 8 hrs.

anonymous · Answer

Homework 3hr.
Bible study 1/2 hr.
Chores 1 hr.

anonymous · Answer

so far you have 20 hours listed.

anonymous · Answer

What is the formula for calculating the answer for all of these questions?

anonymous · Answer

well after you add those together you get 20 hours total, so it would then be simplifying the ratio or 20:24

anonymous · Answer

how would I do that?

anonymous · Answer

reduce it

anonymous · Answer

So I would take 20:24 and then take th first on 7.5hr....

anonymous · Answer

no? you would simplify, meaning get it in simpliest terms...start by dividing each by two . 10:12, then reduce by two again and keep going till you no longer can

anonymous · Answer

so you reduced 20:24 to 10:12 then you try reducing again?

anonymous · Answer

yes, because you can still divide by two, so it would then be 5:6

anonymous · Answer

And you cant reduce anymore because you can't reduce 5

anonymous · Answer

correct!

anonymous · Answer

So then what?  It says we need to find the percent. :)

anonymous · Answer

divide them you would do 5 divided by 6.

anonymous · Answer

.83?  I'm still not sure..

anonymous · Answer

yupp!

anonymous · Answer

??

anonymous · Answer

thats right, what you put. except for percents you move the decimal two places to the right so it would be 83%

anonymous · Answer

That isn't right.. The answer is 31% because for number 1.   7.5hr.
I have the ansewers I just wasn't sure how they got this..

anonymous · Answer

oh! i thought you said to add them together, nit each individual one.

anonymous · Answer

I'm sorry.  That's ok.  :) I still could use help.

anonymous · Answer

alright, well its basically set up as the other, 
you would divide the 7.5 into 24 to get the decimal and then just move the place of the decimal to the right two spaces.

anonymous · Answer

Ok Thank you!!  Is that what you do for all of them?

anonymous · Answer

yupp! im sure there is some equation somewhere for it but if you always divide the first number by the second you will get it :)

anonymous · Answer

Thank you so much! :D