Question

70% of the people in a town are adult. Find the number of children if the total population of the town is 35000

Answer 1

is 500

Answer 2

Maybe .7 * 35000 ???

Just a wild guess... :-)

Answer 3

you divide 7 in 35000 is 500

Answer 4

i agree^

Answer 5

Know you don't divide by 7

70% is 70/100, so you multiply 35000 by .7 (that's POINT 7)

And it is NOT 500.

Answer 6

no. of adults=35000*70/100=24500
no. of children=35000-24500=10500

Answer 7

Another no-brainer way of looking at this:

Is 70% MORE THAN HALF?

Is 500 MORE THAN HALF of 35000?

Obviously, 500 is NOT the answer...

Answer 8

And one more thing, just to keep kicking the horse...

35000/7 isn't 500 anyway...it's 5000

Answer 9

I'm done... :-)

Answer 10

Qweqwe is actually wrong. Luis' answer is the correct one.

A more simple way to approach this is that if 70% of the total population are adults, 30% are children.

All you would need to do is
0.3 * 3500
This also is equal to 10500

Answer 11

I meant 35000.
0.3 * 35000

Missed a zero :P

Answer 12

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