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.

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%.

A. To find the closest percent to 1/3, we can convert 1/3 into a decimal. 1/3 is equivalent to 0.33. Now we can convert this decimal into a percent by multiplying it by 100.

0.33 * 100 = 33

Therefore, the closest percent to 1/3 is 33%.

B. To estimate the number of students in the class, we can set up a proportion using the information given. Let "x" represent the total number of students in the class.

We know that there were 6 students wearing shorts, which is about one-third of the total number of students.

So we can set up the proportion:

6/x = 1/3

To solve for "x", we can cross multiply:

1 * 6 = 3 * x

6 = 3x

Divide both sides by 3:

x = 6/3

x = 2

Therefore, the estimated number of students in the class is 2.

A. To find the percentage that is closest to 1/3, we need to convert 1/3 into a percentage.

To do this, we multiply 1/3 by 100 to get the equivalent percentage.

1/3 * 100 = 33.33

Therefore, the closest percent to 1/3 is approximately 33%.

B. To estimate the number of students in the class, we can set up a proportion using the information given.

Let's say the number of students in the class is "x".

The proportion can be set up as follows:

6 (students wearing shorts) / x (total number of students) = 1/3

To solve for x, we can cross multiply:

6 * 3 = 1 * x

18 = x

So, the estimated number of students in the class is 18.