If there were 150 animals, of which 73 were rabbits and the rest are chickens.. What percentage of the animals were chicken?
Is it 48%
No.
More than half are chickens.
73 divided by 150 comes out to be about 49%.
What am I doing wrong
Carefully read the first sentence in your problem. Then read the question.
So then I take 150 subtract 77 and get 51%
(150 - 73) / 150 = 0.51 = 51%
To find the percentage of animals that were chickens, you first need to determine the number of chickens in the group.
Given that there were 150 animals in total and 73 of them were rabbits, you can subtract the number of rabbits from the total number of animals to find the number of chickens:
Total number of animals - Number of rabbits = Number of chickens
150 - 73 = 77 chickens
Now that you know there were 77 chickens, you can calculate the percentage by dividing the number of chickens by the total number of animals and then multiplying by 100:
(Number of chickens / Total number of animals) x 100 = Percentage of animals that were chickens
(77 / 150) x 100 = 51.33%
Therefore, the correct answer is approximately 51.33%, not 48%.