Question

Sixty-five percent of the 8th grade class is selling magazines for the class fundraiser. If 195 students are selling magazines, how many students are in the whole 8th grade class?

Answer 1

300 students

Explanation:

If 195 students is 65%, then we can divide 195 by 65 to find what 1% is.

195/65= 3

So 1% of the 8th grade class is 3 students. We want to know how many students are in the whole class, which would be 100% of the class.

If we multiply the 3 (which is 1%) by 100 (to get 100%) we can find the total number of students.

3x100=300

We can check this by finding 65% of 300, and seeing if that is 195.

300x.65=195

It does check out.