Question

Solve:

One week, seventy-two percent of the animals that came to a veterinary hospital were dogs. If there were 230 animals total, how many were dogs?

Answer 1

166 dogs were at the veterinary hospital

Explanation:

Here, we want to know the number of dogs that were at the veterinary hospital

From the question, 72% of these animals are dogs

72% of a total of 230

Mathematically, the number of dogs are as follows;

dogs = 72% of 230

dogs = 72/100 * 230 = 165.6

since we cannot have a fractional dog, we round off to the nearest whole number which is 166 dogs