Asked by joelyz

how do you find the percent of how many students in the class for example there are 2000 students in a class and 20 percent of them speak french...how do i solve this problem?

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Answered by Saira
OKay SO it would be

2000 * .20 = 400 students

You take the percent divde by 100 so:

20/ 100= 0.2 and then times that by the whole number
Answered by DrBob222
I don't think you have asked the correct question. The answer to what you asked is 20% because the problem says that.
Answered by joelyz
thanx Saira for the help. well drbob222 the question is: what is the number of students that speak french out of 2000. how do you know that the problem says that?
Answered by Ms. Sue
Drbob is right. Your question starts out: "how do you find the percent of how many students . . ." As he said, the percent is given -- 20%.
Answered by ~{_joelyz_}~
so if the number is 1000 students and the percent you need to divide by 20% then the answer would be...200.0.
Answered by ~{_joelyz_}~
wat do you mean ms.sue?
Answered by DrBob222
Normally I don't respond to questions like this but you need to understand how to ask a question. For example, your question would have been much clearer had you phrased it something like this.
"Twenty percent of a class of 2000 students speak French. How many students in the class speak French?"
Answered by ~{_joelyz_}~
well i meant how many students not the percent but a whole number like 4 or 6.
Answered by ~{_joelyz_}~
good point dr.bob it would have been easyer to read thanx 4 your help!

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