Question

400 students attend Ridgewood Junior High School. 5% of stuc bring their lunch to school everyday. How many students brou lunch to school on Thursday?

Answer 1

20 students brought their lunch on Thursday.

Explanation:

5% of 400 = 20 students

400 x .05 = 20

Answer 2

20 students will bring their lunch to school on Thursday.
What you do to figure that out is take %5 and turn it into a decimal which is 0.05
Then you will multiply 400 by 0.05 to find how many students will bring their lunch to school