Question

There are 125 gumball in the machine. 25 of them are blue. What percent of the gumballs are blue?

Answer 1

% Blue Gumballs = # of Blue Gumballs / Total # of Gumballs

% = 25/125

% = 0.2

Percentage of Blue Gumballs = 20%

Answer 2

There are 125 gum balls in the machine. if 25 gum balls in the machine are blue, we can find the percent that are blue.

To find the percent, we can first create a fraction.
`(25)/(125)` represents the 25 gum balls that are blue out of all the gum balls that are in the machine.

`(25)/(125)` can be reduced to
`(1)/(5)` by dividing both the numerator and denominator by the greatest common factor of 25 and 125 which is 25.

1 ÷ 5 = 0.2

0.2 × 100 = 20%

Therefore, 20% of the gum balls in the machine are blue.