Question

Marissa asks students in her school some questions and records the results. She found that 0.96¯¯¯ of the students supported a plan to shorten the school day by 15 minutes. What portion of the students did not want to shorten the school day? Write your answer as a decimal and as a fraction in simplest form.

Answer 1

Decimal = 0.04

Fraction = 1/25

Explanation:

Let the total number of student in Marosaa school be 1

If she found that 0.96 of the students supported a plan to shorten the school day by 15 minutes, the portion of student that did not support will be expressed as;

= 1-0.96

= 0.04

The expression as a decimal is 0.04

As a fraction;

0.04 = 4/100

4/100 = 1/25

Hence the expression as a fraction in its simplest form is 1/25