Question

2, percent of the students at Hamilton Middle School have red hair. There are 700700700 students at Hamilton Middle School. How many students at Hamilton Middle School have red hair?

Answer 1

We have been given that 2 percent of the students at Hamilton Middle School have red hair. There are 700 students at Hamilton Middle School.

To find number of students at Hamilton middle school have red hair we will find 2% of 700.

`\text{Students at Hamilton middle school have red hair}=700* (2)/(100)`

`\text{Students at Hamilton middle school have red hair}=7* 2`

`\text{Students at Hamilton middle school have red hair}=14`

Therefore, 14 students at Hamilton Middle School have red hair.

Answer 2

If two percent of Hamilton Middle School students have red hair, it means that the number of students who have red hair is given by (0.02) * (700700700) = 14014014 students.