Question

If there are 25 marbles in a box and 9 of them are blue, what percent of the marbles are a color than blue?

Answer 1

First, you have to find what percent of 25 is 9. The answer for that would be 36%. Then, you must subtract 36% (the blue marbles) from 100% (all of the marbles). That leaves you with 64% as your final answer.

Answer 2

There are 25 marbles in a box and 9 of the marbles are blue. What percent of the marbles are a color other than blue.

First, we need to understand what the problem is asking us to do. If we know that there are 9 marbles in the box that are blue and there are 25 marbles that are in the box altogether, we can subtract 9 from 25 and we get a difference of 16. Now we know that we need to find the percent of the marbles that are not blue.

16 ÷ 25 = 0.64

0.64 × 100 = 64%

Therefore, 64% of the marbles are a different color than blue and 36% of the marbles are blue.