Question

There are 32 students in Miss Smith’s class. Eighteen are girls. What percent of the class are girls?

Answer 1

create a fraction girls/total students then multiply by 100

Answer 2

Out of the total number of students (32), there are (18) girls. We can then write a fraction to represent the number of girls in the class:
\[\frac{18 \ \text{girls}}{32 \ \text{students}}\]
If you were to solve this, you would find what percent of the class consists of girls.