Question

You are helping a coworker with presentation and he has asked you to print out memos for him on a variety of colors paper. 60 people will be attending and he needs 60% of the memos to be blue, 20% to be red, 15% to be green, and 5% to be yellow. How many green memos do you need to print?

Answer 1

whatever% of anything is just (whatever/100) * anything.

there'll be 60 folks, so 60 memos on total.

how much is 15% (green ones) of 60? well, is just (15/100) * 60.