Question

Esteban has a big jar of change in his room He has 600 coins in total and 240 of them are pennies what percent of coins are pennies

Answer 1

The answer is 40%. I multiplied 600 decimals numbers (0.1, 0.2, 0.3) until the answer I got was 240.

Answer 2

Esteban has a big jar of change in his room. There are 600 coins in total and 240 of them are pennies. What percent of the coins are pennies?

The fraction
`(240)/(600)` represents the number of pennies out of all the coins in the jar. To find what percent of pennies are in the jar, we can turn the fraction
`(240)/(600)` into a percent.

We can first simplify the fraction
`(240)/(600)` by dividing both the numerator and denominator by the Greatest Common Factor of 240 and 600 using 120.

240 ÷ 100 = 2

600 ÷ 120 = 5

2 ÷ 5 = 0.4

0.4 × 100 = 40%

Therefore, 40% of the coins were pennies.