Question

If 80 out of 160 students voted for bulldog what precent of students voted for bulldog

Answer 1

80/160 voted for the bulldogs. To find the percent of votes you would do the following.

80/160 reduce the fraction to 1/2 by dividing the numerator and denominator by 80.

80/80=1
160/80=2

1/2 is 50%

Answer is 50%.

Answer 2

50%

Explanation:

To find the percent of students that voted for bulldog, we need to take the number of students that voted for bulldog over the total students that voted and multiply by 100

Percent students that voted bulldog = students that voted for bulldog

--------------------------------------------- * 100

students that voted

80/160 * 100

1/2*100

50%