Question

Thirty-two percent of the trees in a forest are hardwood and the rest are conifers. What percentage of the trees are conifers?

Answer 1

ANSWER

68%

EXPLANATION

Assuming that in the forest there are only hardwood trees and conifers if 32% of them are hardwood, then the rest of the percentage are conifers,

$100\%-32\%=68\%$

Hence, 68% of the trees are conifers.