Question

Emilys family loves to work together in the garden. They have a slight preference for flowers, as 60% their plants are flowers and 40% are vegetables. They have 50 to plants growing in the garden.

Answer 1

Number of Flowering Plants = 30

Number of vegetable plants = 20

Explanation:

Im assuming the question is asking for the number of vegetables and number of flowers.

We need to convert 60% and 40% to decimal. The process is dividing by 100. Hence,

60% = 60/100 = 0.6

and

40% = 40/100 = 0.4

We multiply these with the total number to get number of vegetable and flowering plants.

So,

Number of Flowering Plants = 0.6 * 50 = 30

Number of vegetable plants = 0.4 * 50 = 20