A music class has 60 students, and 36 of them are women. What percent are men?

Question

Can you show how you got your answer please.

Answer 1

Since there are 36 women, we can use this to find how many men by subtracting 36 from 60.

women = 36

men = 60 - 36 = 24

Now that we know there are 24 men in the class, what percentage is that of 60.

The percent formula is % = (Part ÷ Whole) x 100

In this case, the men will be our part and the total is our whole.

% = (24 ÷ 60) x 100

% = 0.4 x 100

% = 40

You could also do this another way by calculating the percent of women and subtracting from 100%.

%women = (36 ÷ 60) x 100

% = 0.6 x 100

% = 60

There are 60% women in the class and subtracting that from 100% will give you 40% men.