Forty percent of the 20 seats on the bus were occupied. Write 40% as a reduced fraction. Then find the number of seats that were occupied.
okay. Did you get 8?
20/100x40=8
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To write 40% as a reduced fraction, we need to rewrite it in the form of a fraction with a numerator and denominator.
Step 1: Convert 40% to a fraction.
To convert a percentage to a fraction, divide the percentage by 100. In this case, the calculation would be:
40% ÷ 100 = 0.4
Step 2: Simplify the fraction.
To simplify a fraction, we can divide both the numerator and the denominator by their greatest common divisor (GCD). In this case, the GCD of 40 and 100 is 20. Dividing both the numerator and denominator by 20, we get:
0.4 ÷ 0.2 = 2/5
Therefore, 40% can be represented as the fraction 2/5.
Next, to find the number of seats occupied:
Step 3: Calculate the number of seats.
Since 40% of the 20 seats were occupied, we can find the number of seats by multiplying 20 by 40% or 2/5.
20 seats × 40% (2/5) = 20 × (2/5) = 4 seats
Therefore, there were 4 seats occupied.
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40/100 = 2/5
Multiply 2/5 times 20
Can you finish from here?