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There were 10 students on a field trip. while outside, 20% of the students wore jackets. how many students wore jackets?

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2 students wore jackets
User Gil Cohen
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To find this, you would use the equation 10(x) where x is the decimal representing the percentage you want to find.

In this case its 20% so you use 10(.20) which equals 2.

2 students wore jackets.
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