300 runners and 24% reported that they would rather run barefoot than wear a running shoe. How many runners surveyed prefer wearing a running show?

Question

Calculating percentage

 

Answer 1

Translated:

    300 runners

     24% of 300 runners would rather run barefoot

    (24/100)(300) would rather run barefoot

        Note that 24% may be written as (24/200) or 0.24 as needed by the problem.

        "of" in a word (story) problem usually means multiply.

     72 runners would rather run barefoot

  That leaves 300-72 = 228 who would prefer wearing a running shoe.

 

You could also compute this as:  (100% - 24%) of runners prefer a shoe.

                                                  76% of 300

                                                (76/100)(300)

                                                       228