A track team has 25 runners. There are 18 boys on the team. What percent of the team are girls?

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Answer 1

1.  Can you find how many on the team are girls?

2.  The ratio of girls to 25 (entire membership) is then calculated, and by movement of the decimal point (2 places toward the right) you will then have the % that are girls.

Answer 2

Percents have to do with 100. If you ask a friend for all of her candy bar, you are asking for 100%. For example, 25/100 =25 %, 2/100 =2%, and 75/100=75%.
There are several ways of working this problem. Let's go:

Q: What percent are girls? Find first what percent are boys. total in class =25 students, number of boys=18
Write a fraction. Note: part/Total = 18/25 Change fraction to something/100 Multiply numerator and denominator by 4. 18 *4     = 72 = _______% are boys
25*4             100
Total percent= 100%

Total percent - boy's %= girl's %       I am going to let you do some work and finish your problem. Susan C.