Question

At the craft store, Winston boughta bag of orange and red marbles.He received 40 marbles in all. 36of the marbles were orange. Whatpercentage of the marbles wereorange? Write your answer usinga % sign.

Answer 1

In this case, we'll have to carry out several steps to find the solution.

Step 01:

Data:

total marbles = 40

orange marbles = 36

% orange marbles = ?

Step 02:

$\text{ \% orange marbles }\frac{\text{oranges marbles }}{\text{total marbles }}\cdot100\text{ \%}$

% oranges marbles = (36 / 40) * 100 %

= 90%

The answer is:

The percentage of oranges marbles is 90%.