Question

PLEASE HELP ME WITH THIS WORD PROBLEMEight percent of the students in David's class have pets. If there are 25 students in David's class. How many students have pets?

Answer 1

2

Explanation:

The definition of percent: A fraction out of 100.

So if eight percent of David's class has pets, then we can simplify this to 8/100 of 25. Based on our knowledge of equivalent fractions, we can simplify 8/100 to 4/50.

4/50 of 25 can be written out like this:

25 divided by 50 and then multiplied by four.

25 divided by 50 is 0.5, since 50 is exactly double 25.

And now 0.5 multiplied by 4 is 2.

The answer is 2 students in David's class has pets.

Note: You could have also directly divided 25 by 100 and then multiplied it by 8. That also works and you would get the same answer.