Homework Help: Math

Posted by Jaime on Sunday, October 30, 2011 at 7:56pm.

A cafe holds 300 coffee mugs. 175 of those coffee mugs do not have handles. Estimate the percent of mugs that have handles.

Math - Steve, Monday, October 31, 2011 at 5:40am
(300-175)/300
is about
(300-200)/300 = 100/300 = 33%

Since 175 < 200, the estimate will be a bit low, as we subtracted too much.

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