Question

Francis buys a package of 450 plastic forks. he uses 315 of the plastic forks. What percent of plastic forks did Francis use? show your work.​

Answer 1

Since Francis used 315 forks out of 450 forks, we can set up a fraction like 315/450

We then want to simplify this fraction to get a percentage.

We can divide the top and bottom by 45, which is will give us a simplified fraction of 7/10, which is equal to the percent of 70%

Work to write: 315/450 = 7/10 = 0.7 = 70%