Question

If 596 people voted in the election, how many were over 65 years old?

Answer 1

149 people voted over the age of 65 years old

Answer 2

149 people are over 65 years old.

Explanation:

The circular diagram, which represents this problem, is attached. There you can observe that only 25% of the people is over 65. years old.

So, if 596 people voted,

`(25 \%) 596 = 0.25(596)=149`

Therefore, 149 of the voters were over 65 years old.

Remember that to find the number of people over 65 years old, we just need to multiply the percentage as decimal witht the total number of people. In this case, those people represent a 25%, that's why we multiplied by 0.25, because that's the decimal representation of 25%.