Question

three-quarters of students are wearing the school's colors. if there are 300 students how many are wearing the colors?

Answer 1

225 students are wearing school colors.

Explanation:

1. we know that 75% or .75 of the students are wearing school colors.

2. to find what this number is we need to know what 75% of 300 is.

("of" is a keyword meaning multiply)

3. We can do this by multiplying:

300(.75) = 225