Question

residents of a small city voted on whether to allow a developer to build a shopping center.the number of votes favor of the shopping center was 4,400.the number of votes against the shopping center was 17,600.what percent of the voters were in favor of building the shopping center?

Answer 1

The percent of votes in favor is equal to the amount of votes in favor divided by the total number of votes.

Thus in this case, our percentage would be 4400/22000=20%.