Question

If 16 student drove to school out of a class of 21, what percentage drove to school

Answer 1

the answer is 80 percent

Answer 2

Your answer would be 76.2% to the nearest tenth.

We can find this by first dividing 16 by 21 to get 0.7619. which is the proportion as a decimal. To convert this into a percentage, we need to multiply it by 100 to get 76.19% = 76.2% to the nearest tenth.

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