Question

A restaurant has seated guest in 12 of the 40 tables, as

represented by the model.
What percentage of the 40 tables in the restaurant have
been seated?

Answer 1

The percentage of tables that have guests seated can be calculated by dividing the number of occupied tables by the total number of tables and then multiplying by 100%.

Using the numbers provided:

(12 seated tables / 40 total tables) * 100% = 30%

Thus, 30% of the tables in the restaurant have been seated.

Answer 2

12 ÷ 40 ×100 = 30%

so 30% have been seated
and 70% are not