Question

A school accepts 4/5 of its applicants. What percent of the applicants does the school accept

Answer 1

5×20 is 100. Then 4×20 is 80. You get 80/100, so it is equal to 80%.

Answer 2

IN order to find the percentage of the applicants accepted by the school, we have to convert the denominator as 100 using equivalent fractions concept.

After converting the denominator as 100, what we get in numerator is the percentage of applicants accepted by the school.

Now in our case we are given 4/5 of the applicants are accepted by the school.

So let us find its equivalent fraction with denominator 100.

We have 5 in denominator, so we would multiply it with 20 to get 100.

We will also multiply numerator with 20, to make an equivalent fraction.

So we have,

`(4*20)/(5*20)`

Which is equal to 80/100.

NUmerator is 80.

So 80 percent of application are accepted by the school.