Question

72

%
of the questions on a student's test were correct. There were
50
questions. How many of the questions were correct?

Answer 1

36

Explanation:

The way to read this question would go: What is 72% of 50 because that will get you the number of correct solutions. When reading a statement like that, the word "of" means to multiply. However, before we multiply those two values we have to convert the value "72" into percent form. To do that you just divide it by 100 to get 0.72. Then following the statement, you would do 0.72*50 to get your final value of 36 correct questions