Question

A company donated 200 books to a local library. If 70 of them are fiction, what percent of the donated books are fiction

Answer 1

The answer is 35%.

Resoning:
200÷70=.35
.35×100=35%

Answer 2

A company donated 200 books to a local library and 70 of the books are fiction. What percent of the books are fiction?

To find what percent of the books are fiction, we can turn it into a fraction.
`(70)/(200)` represents the 70 books that our fiction out of all the other books in the library.

We can first reduce this fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by the greatest common factor of 70 and 200 using 10.

Now, we have our reduced fraction which is
`(7)/(20)`.

7 ÷ 20 = 0.35

0.35 × 100 = 35%

Therefore, 35% of the books in the library are fiction.