Question

There are 12 fish in a tank, and 50 percent of the fish are orange.

How many of the fish are orange?

Responses

5 fish
5 fish

9 fish
9 fish

6 fish
6 fish

8 fish

Answer 1

To find out how many fish are orange in a tank when 50 percent of the fish are orange, simply multiply the total number of fish by 0.5. For a tank with 12 fish, the calculation results in 6 orange fish.

Step-by-step explanation:

To determine how many of the fish in a tank are orange when given that 50 percent of the fish are orange, we simply need to calculate 50 percent of the total number of fish in the tank. In this case, there are 12 fish in total.

50 percent converted to a decimal is 0.5. To find 50 percent of 12 fish, you would use the equation:

Number of orange fish = Total number of fish × Percentage of orange fish (as a decimal)

Number of orange fish = 12 × 0.5

Number of orange fish = 6

Therefore, 6 fish in the tank are orange.

Answer 2

Sorry if im missing something:

50% of 12 = 6