College men

Question

If 14 out of 24 students in a college are men, then, to the nearest tenth of a percent, what percent of the class is composed of men?

Answer 1

The ratio of men to the total number of students is 14:24, or written as a fraction, 14/24.

We reduce this to 7/12, if the teacher wants to know "what fraction of all students are men" but to get percentage, we do the division, getting quotient 0.583333 and then to make it into % we multiply by 100, which shifts the decimal point two places to the right: 58.3%