Question

A class has 25 students in it. 4 students drop the class. What is a reasonable estimate for the percentage of students that dropped?

Answer 1

16%

Explanation:

SInce 4 students left the class, and there are 25 students, let's make it a fraction.

4/25.

As it is asking for a percentage though we could simply convert our fraction to a percentage.

Simply divide the numerator (4) by the denominator (25).

This gives us 0.16.

Which is 16%.

Answer 2

16% drop

Explanation:

4/25 drop

Multiply by 4/4

16/100

16% drop