Question

A cinema seats 280 people. if 98 people are in the cinema what percentage of seats are filled?

Answer 1

35%

Explanation:

The total number of cinema seats can seat 280 people. Since 98 people take up 98 seats of the cinema, they are taking up 98 cinema seats out of the 280 cinema seats originally available.

As a fraction this would be written as
`(98)/(280)` .

What you want to do is then divide 98 by 280 or 98/280, to get 0.35.

To get the percentage of seats filled, you must multiply the decimal you get by 100.

So it should look like this and your result should be 35%.

`(98)/(280) = 0.35 *100=35`%