3.Max says there were 6 students wearing shorts in his math class. He is not sure how many people were in the class, total, but he thinks about one third of them were wearing shorts.
A. What percent is closest to 1/3 ?
Explain.
B.Write and solve a proportion below, to estimate the number of students in the class.
2 answers
Mostly, there are about 20 students in a WHOLE class. If there were about 1/3 of them wearing shorts and 6 were wearing them, wouldn't you just do 6 x the denominator of 3? That would get you 18, which is fairly close to 20. If this helped, your welcome Francis. If it didn't, maybe you could try and check out my question.
Lilly, I don't know where you get the 20 from, maybe as a generalization? Anyways, your answer is right, but you forgot the actual percent
33.33 (repeating)% is closest to 1/3.
If you take 33.33 and multiply that by 3 (3 thirds make a whole), you get 99.99 (repeating) which is close enough to 100%.
33.33 (repeating)% is closest to 1/3.
If you take 33.33 and multiply that by 3 (3 thirds make a whole), you get 99.99 (repeating) which is close enough to 100%.