Question

A school staff meeting had 70 teachers in attendance, 40% of whom were first-year teachers. How many first-year teachers were in the meeting?

Answer 1

Answer: 28.

Explanation:

If 40% of the teachers in attendance at the school staff meeting were first-year teachers, that means 28 of the teachers in the meeting were first-year teachers.

Answer 2

28

Explanation:

We first would need to figure out what %10 of 70 is.

%10 of 70 is equal to 7.

Now that we have this answer, we can multiply 7 by 4 to get the number of teachers.

7 × 4 = 28

28 first year teachers were in the meeting.