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A survey showed that 82% of youth most often use the Internet at home. What fraction of youth surveyed most often use the Internet somewhere else?

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3/25 use somewhere else
User KingRauk
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We can see that the problem is asking us for the percentage of youth that do not use the Internet at home. Know that there can only be 100% in mathematical models, whihc means that the percent of youth that use the Internet most often somewhere else is:


100 \% - 82 \% = 18 \%


Now, we are going to need to convert this percentage to a fraction. To convert percentages put the percentage in the numerator in a fraction with 100 as the denominator (percentages are out of 100). In this case, 18% is made into the fraction like so:


18 \% = (18)/(100) = (9)/(50)


The answer is 9/50.

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