32 out of the 64 employees at the water slides are temporary employees. What percentage of the employees at the water slides are temporary?

Question

32 out of the 64 employees at the water slides are temporary employees. What percentage of the employees at the water slides are temporary?

Answer 1

Hi Anthony,

Percentages are really ratios/fractions with denominators of 100. We can use equivalent ratios to determine what percent is represented as 32 out of 64:

32 = 1

64 2

Then 1/2 written as a percent is:

1 • 50 = x

2 • 50 100

x = 50

Therefore, the percentage of temporary employees is 50 %.