Question

Diana owns a novelty shop in downtownSan Antonio. She ordered a shipment of48 party hats. Of the 48 hats that sheordered, 25% were blue. How many ofthe hats are blue?

Answer 1

We can calcualte the number of blue hats by multiplying the total number of hats (n=48) by the proportion of blue hats (p=25%=0.25).

Then:

`B=n\cdot p=48\cdot0.25=12`

There are 12 blue hats.