Question

3. There are 24 girls and 36 boys in Yuki's

science class. Given this information,
answer the following questions:
a) What is the ratio of girls to boys?
b) Girls make up what percent of the
class (round to nearest whole
percent)?
c) Yuki herself makes up what percent
of the class (round to nearest
hundredth)?

Answer 1

a) 24:36 simplified: 2:3

b) 40%

c) 1%

Explanation:

b) total people:

24 + 36= 60

24/60 = 0.4 40%

c) 1/60 = 0.01

01%