Trey has completed 36 deliveries so far this week. He needs to make 80 deliveries for the week. What percentage of deliveries has trey completed?

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asked Jul 5, 2020 138k views

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Vigs · Answer 1 · 2020-07-10T05:52:51+0000

The fraction of completed deliveries is

(36)/(80)=0.45

We want to express 0.45 as a fraction with denominator 100:

$0.45=(x)/(100)\iff x=0.45\cdot 100=45$

So, 45% of the work has been done so far.