Question

Mrs. Lane took a survey of the types of pants her students were wearing. She collected the data at the right. What percent of her students were wearing shorts

Answer 1

It is always important to go through the given problem first to get a concept of the requiremement. Then all the information's available from the question has to be noted down in such a manner that there would be no need to look at the question while solving.

Total number of students wearing jeans = 10

Total number of students wearing shorts = 9

Total number of students wearing capris = 2

Then the total number of students surveyed by Mrs Lane = (10 + 9 + 2)

= 21

Now percentage of students wearing shorts = (9/21) * 100

= (3/7) * 100

= 300/7

= 42.85 percent

So a total percentage of 42.85% of the students were wearing shorts.

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