Question

Mr. Macdonald has 480 animals on his farm . 0.5 of the animals arecows 1/8 are goats The remainder of the Animals are chickens and ducks if 33 1/3% are chickens how many ducks are on the farm?

Answer 1

120

Explanation:

given that out of 480 animals 0.5 of the animals are cows . So ,

no. of cows = 0.5*480 = 240

Again, we are given that 1/8 of the animals are goats , so the number of goats would be ,

no. of goats = 1/8*480 = 60

Total no. of goats and cows ,

= 240 + 60 = 300

No. of remaining animals= 480 -300 = 180

Now out of these 180 animals 33⅓ % animals are chickens and remaining are ducks.

Percentage of ducks = (100 - 33⅓ )% = 66.67%

So the number of ducks would be ,

180 * 66.67/100 = 120

And we are done!

Answer 2

120

Explanation:

480 total

1/2 = 240 are cows

1/8 = 60 are goats

remaining = 480-240-60 = 180 are chickens & ducks

33.3333% of 180 = chickens =180/3 = 60 chickens

so ducks = 180-60 =120