Question

Mr. Franco's records show that 44% of his students bring their own lunches to school. What is the percent and decimal of the students who DO NOT bring their own lunches.

Answer 1

Percentage 56%

Decimal 0.56

Explanation:

As percentages are out of 100, to work out the people who did not bring their own lunches you would simply minus the percentage of people that do which is 44 by 100, this gives you 56. this is because subtracting it from 100 we are removing the people that did from the total and so will leave us with the percentage of people that did not.

To work out the percentage who did not bring in their own lunches as a decimal you would divide the percentage of 56 by 100, this gives you 0.56. This is because percentages are out of 100%.

1) Minus 44 from 100.

`100-44=56%`

2) Divide 56 by 100.

`56/100=0.56`