Question

In a class of 34 students, 19 of them are girls.

What percentage of the class are girls?
Give your answer to 1 decimal place

Answer 1

6.46% of the classmates are girls.

Explanation:

So you do 34×19% and that gets you 6.46%.

Answer 2

55.9%

Explanation:

To find the percent that are girls, take the number of girls over the total number of students

19/34

.558823529

To change to percent form, multiply by 100%

55.8823529%

To 1 decimal place

55.9%