Question

30% of all Skittles are supposed to be purple.

a) If there are 84 skittles in a pack, how many should be purple? (Response area)

b) What percentage or skittles are not purple? (Response area)

c). Assuming that there are 18 purple Skittles in a pack, then how many total Skittles are there? (response area)

Answer 1

a) 25

b) 59

c) Too lazy

Explanation:

If 30% were to be a decimal, it would be 0.3 because 30% of 1 is 0.3. We will use this to figure out how many purple skittles there are.

A) To find the amount of purple skittles we must multiply the total number of skittles by the percent (in this case 0.3). Equation = (84*0.3=25.2) You can't really have 0.2 of a skittle so we would round down to the whole number (25).

B) Knowing the number of purple skittles, finding the number of non-purple skittles is straightforward. All you have to do is subtract the # of purple skittles from the total amount of skittles (84-25=59).

C) Kinda forgot how to do this but good luck