Question

determine the answer to the nearest tenth of percent.2out of every 7 days come on a weekend .what percentage of days come on a weekend?

Answer 1

Solution

We can use the following formula for the percent:

$\text{Percent}=\frac{\text{amount of interest}}{total\text{ of days}}\cdot100$

For this case we can calculate the percentage with the following formula:

$\frac{2}{7}\cdot100=28.57$

And rounded to the nearest tenth is 28.6