Question

At a birthday party, Vivian counts 15 vanilla ice cream cups and 25 chocolate ice cream cups. Which properties can be used to determine the percent, p, of the ice cream that is chocolate?

Answer 1

62.5 %

Explanation:

The percentage, p of the ice cream that is chocolate is p = total number of chocolate ice cream cups/total number of ice cream cups × 100%

Given that there are 25 chocolate ice cream cups and 15 vanilla ice cream cups, total number of ice cream cups = 25 + 15 = 40

So, p = total number of chocolate ice cream cups/total number of ice cream cups × 100%

p = 25/40 × 100%

p = 25/4 × 10 %

p = 6.25 × 10 %

p = 62.5 %