Question

An animal park has lions, tigers and zebras. 17% of the animals are zebras. What percentage are tigers? Show me your work!

Answer 1

53% are tigers

Explanation:

If you were referring to the question:

An animal park has lions, tigers and zebras. 17% of the animals are lions and 3/10 of the animals are zebras. What percentage are tigers? Show me your work!

We can then solve it by considering what is 3/10 in percent form.

When you think of percent, just remember that it is a portion for every 100. So think of a fraction that is proportional to 3/10 that is a fraction of 100:

`(3)/(10) = (x)/(100)\\\\(300)/(10)=x\\\\30 = x`

So 3/10 = 30/100 which in percentage form is 30%.

Now if:

17% = lions

30% = zebras

We can get the percentage by looking for how many out of 100% is left.

100% - (17% + 30%)

100% - 47%

53%