Question

Kara categorized her spending for this month into four categories: Rent, Food, Fun, and Other. The amounts she spent in each category areFood : $244Rent : $306Other : $ 367Fun : $183What percent of her total spending did she spend on Food?

Answer 1

First, we have to calculate the total amount of money she spent:

`244+306+367+183=1100`

$1,100 is 100% of the money she spent.

With the latter, we can calculate the percent of Food in her total spending by building the following relation:

`(1100)/(100)=(244)/(x)`

Where x is the percent of Food.

Isolating for x:

`(11)/(1)=(244)/(x)`
`x=(244)/(11)`
`x\approx22.18`

Answer: 22.18%