At the car dealership there are 58 cars, 28 cars are white and the rest are blue. Approximately what percentage is blue

Question

a word problem 

help me please 

Answer 1

There are two approaches:

 

1.  The direct way is to subtract 28 from 58 to determine the number of blue cars, then divide that number by the total number and multiply by 100% to find the percent of blue cars.

 

i.e.  58 - 28 = 30.  30/58 times 100%.

 

2.  The indirect way is to divide 28 by 58 and multiply by 100% to find the % of white cars, and subtract from 100%.

 

I hope this helps.

Answer 2

58 - 28 = 30 blue cars.

30/58 = 51.7% are blue