how do you find the percent of how many students in the class for example there are 2000 students in a class and 20 percent of them speak french...how do i solve this problem?
OKay SO it would be
2000 * .20 = 400 students
You take the percent divde by 100 so:
20/ 100= 0.2 and then times that by the whole number
I don't think you have asked the correct question. The answer to what you asked is 20% because the problem says that.
thanx Saira for the help. well drbob222 the question is: what is the number of students that speak french out of 2000. how do you know that the problem says that?
Drbob is right. Your question starts out: "how do you find the percent of how many students . . ." As he said, the percent is given -- 20%.
so if the number is 1000 students and the percent you need to divide by 20% then the answer would be...200.0.
wat do you mean ms.sue?
Normally I don't respond to questions like this but you need to understand how to ask a question. For example, your question would have been much clearer had you phrased it something like this.
"Twenty percent of a class of 2000 students speak French. How many students in the class speak French?"
well i meant how many students not the percent but a whole number like 4 or 6.
good point dr.bob it would have been easyer to read thanx 4 your help!
To find the percent of students in a class who speak French, you can follow these steps:
1. Begin by calculating 20% of 2000, which means finding the number that represents 20% of 2000.
To do this, multiply the total number of students (2000) by 20% (0.20).
Calculation: 2000 * 0.20 = 400
So, 400 students speak French in this class.
2. Finally, to express this number as a percentage, divide the number of students who speak French (400) by the total number of students (2000), and multiply by 100.
Calculation: (400 / 2000) * 100 = 20%
Therefore, you can conclude that 20% of the students in the class speak French.