Question

A store has 300 televisions on order, and 60% are high definition. How many televisions on order are high definition? You may find the bar model useful in completing this problem.

Answer 1

180 of the televisions are in high definition

Explanation:

If you want to find the percentage of something, you change the percentage to a denominator of 100. In this case, you have 60% out of 300.

60% = 60/100

60/100 x 300/1

If we cancel out the zeroes then we get 6 x 30/1, which is 180

Hope this helps!

Answer 2

180 TVs

Explanation:

So we're working out 60% of 300

10% of 300 is 30 (10% is always just divide by 10)

10% x 6 = 60% so 30 x 6 = 180