Question

A restaurant employed 465 people. There are 280 waiters and 185 cooks.if 168 waiters and 85 cooks receive pay raises, what percent of the waiters will receive a pay raise?

Answer 1

First off, get rid of the useless information about the cooks. 168 out of 280 waiters receive a pay raise. It can be written like this: 168/280. This is seen as a division problem. 168 divided by 280= 0.6. To make it a percent, we move the decimal point over two places making it 60%.