Question

Please help me solve this problem. There are over 2,700 species of snakes in the world. Over 600 species are venomous. Express the fraction of species that are not venomous as a decimal. Please show step by step how to solve this problem Thank you

Answer 1

first you would do 2700-600. Then you would put that answer which is 2100, over 2700(2100/2700) then divide that.(2100 divided by 2700). then your answer wold be .77 repeating. 

Answer 2

The fraction of species that are not venomous to the total number of snakes is 0.78

Explanation:

Total number of species of snakes in the world = 2,700

Total number of venomous species of snakes in the world = 600

So subtracting the number of venomous species from number of species of snakes will give the number of non venomous species.

Hence,

`\text{Number non venomous species}=2700-600=2100`

The fraction of species that are not venomous is,

`=\frac{\text{Number non venomous species}}{\text{Total number of species}}`

Putting the values,

`=(2100)/(2700)=0.7777....\approx 0.78`