There are 32 students in a class. Nine of those students are women. What percent are men?

Question

I need help. Please help me. This is hard.

Answer 1

Let's assume that of those 32 students, there are only men and women (which is to say there aren't any goats or martians...no trick questions, just humans). So if 9 of the 32 are women, then everybody left would be a guy.  That's 32 - 9 = 23 men.  

 

To turn that into a percentage, just divide the amount of men by the total amount of people in the class: 23/32 = 71.875%.