Mr. Brown planted a vegetable garden. The circle graph shows the kinds of vegetables he planted and the percentage of the area of the garden each kind of vegetable occupied.

Question

Mr. Brown’s garden has an area of 160 square feet. How many square feet of Mr. Brown’s garden is occupied by cabbage?
136 ft2
24 ft2
15 ft2
145 ft2

Answer 1

24 ft2

Cabbage occupies 15% of the garden, so the area occupied by cabbage is 0.15 * 160 = 24 square feet.