Question

At a middle school, 74 students have freckles. There are 258 students in the school. To the nearest tenth of a percent, what percent of the students have freckles?

Answer 1

If there are 258 kids total in school, then let’s take it as 100%
And 74 kids have freckles, so we have to find the % of those kids with freckles.
258–100%
74-?%

Let’s find 1% of the kids.
258/100=2.58

Now let’s find the % of 74 kids.
74/2.58=28.68%~28.7%
(The percent of the kids with freckles is 28.7%)