Question

Troy had 44 celery sticks on a tray for his party. He put peanut butter on 25% of the celery sticks. How many celery sticks on the tray had peanut butter on them?

Answer 1

Hello!

We know that any given percentage can be expressed as a fraction with a denominator of 100, as follows:


`(x)/(100)`

Because we want to find 25% of the celery sticks, we can convert this percentage into the following fraction:


`(25)/(100)` =
`(1)/(4)`

Now multiply this reduced fraction by the number of celery sticks:

44 ×
`(1)/(4)` =
`(44)/(4)`

The fraction
`(44)/(4)` can be reduced to a value of 11. We have now proven that 11 celery sticks received peanut butter.

I hope this helps!