Question

There are 100 students in a drawing contest, and 58 of them are girls. What percent of the students in the contest are girls?

Answer 1

You take 58/100 and you’ll get your answer and you should get 58%

Answer 2

There are 100 students in a drawing contest and 58 of students are girls. What percent of students in the drawing contest are girls?

The fraction
`(58)/(100)` represents the number of girls in the drawing contest out of all the students.

To find out what percent of the students are in the drawing contest, we can change
`(58)/(100)` into a percent.

We can first reduce the fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by the Greatest Common Factor of 58 and 100 using 2.

58 ÷ 2 = 29

100 ÷ 2 = 50

Our reduced fraction is
`(29)/(50)`.

29 ÷ 50 = 0.58

0.58 × 100 = 58%

Therefore, 58% of the students in the drawing contest are girls.