Question

There are 16 shirts.

12 of them are green, while 4 of them are yellow.

What percentage of them are green, and what percentage of them are yellow?

**Be sure to explain your answer! :) **

Answer 1

Here 16 is evenly divisable by 12 and 4, so you would find the fractions that 12 and 4 are of 16. That would be 12/16, or 3/4 and 4/16, or 1/4. Then you would convert those fractions to decimals and percents. 3/4 is 0.75, which is 75% and 1/4 is 0.25, which is 25%. I hope this helps! Just ask if you need me to explain it more.

Answer 2

Alright, we can start by dividing 16 into chunks, and since 12 is a multiple of 4, we're just gonna divide by four

16/4=4

So there are four fours in sixteen, cool. Now 100 divided what would equal 4?

100/4=25

Ok. So each four is 25 percent. There are three fours in twelve so

3*25=75

Green=75%

and four only has one four in it so

1*25=25

Yellow=25%