Question

In 2000, nearly 18% of cars sold in North America were silver. What

percent of cars sold were not silver?

Answer 1

`72\%` of the cars weren't silver.

Explanation:

Step 1: Understanding the entire percentage

In percentage form, we could say that the percentage of ALL the cars is
`100\%`, since we are counting every single car in North America here.

Step 2: Finding the percentage

We have been said that
`18\%` of the cars are silver.
So, the percentage of cars that aren't silver will be the silver car's percentage subtracted from the whole percentage:

`100-18\\=72`

So,
`72\%` of the cars weren't silver.