Question

A company spent 32% of its annual budget developing a new machine. What fraction of the company's budget was spent developing the new machine?

Answer 1

The answer is 8/25! This is because 32% is equal to 32/100, when you simplify this it equals 8/25.

Answer 2

We have been given that the company spent 32% of its annual budget developing a new machine.

Let us convert the percentage to fraction.

`32 \%=(32)/(100) \\ \\ 32 \%=(4* 8)/(4* 25)\\ \\ \text{Cancel 4 from numerator and denominator}\\ \\ 32 \%=(8)/(25)`

Thus, when we convert 32% to fraction that will be equal to 8/25.

Hence,
`(8)/(25)` company's budget was spent developing the new machine.