Question

There are 650 sixth graders in the school and 338 of them are girls what percent of the sixth grade students are girls

Answer 1

338/650 is .52, Which becomes 52%

Answer 2

There are 650 sixth graders in the school and 338 of the sixth graders are girls. What percent of the sixth graders are girls?

The fraction
`(338)/(650)` represents the number of sixth graders that are girls out of all the sixth graders in the school.

To find what percent of sixth graders are girls, we can turn
`(338)/(650)` into a percent.

We can first reduce this fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by the Greatest Common Factor of 338 and 650 using 26.

338 ÷ 26 = 13

650 ÷ 26 = 25

Our reduced fraction is
`(13)/(25)`.

13 ÷ 25 = 0.52

0.52 × 100 = 52%

Therefore, 52% of the sixth grade students are girls.