Question

There are 40 monkeys and 60% of the monkeys are in the trees. How many monkeys are in the trees?

Show your work: Write an equation, solve and explain your thinking

Answer 1

24 monkeys are in the tree

Explanation:

We solve it by writing
`(60)/(100)` times
`(40)/(1)`

Why is it over 100? Because every percent is out of 100!

`(60)/(100)` X
`(40)/(1)` (your equation)

60 times 40 = 2400 and 100 times 1 = 100, We get,
`(2400)/(100)`,

Lastly, we simplify the fraction by 100 on each side:

`(2400)/(100)` /
`(100)/(100)`

you get 24