Question 1934: You took a quiz that had 20 questions on it. You got 70% of the questions right. How many questions did you get right? Answer by longjonsilver(2297) (Show Source):
You can put this solution on YOUR website! watch the transformation from english to maths...once you understand, you can go from the first line to the last directly.
starting with English...
you got 70% of 20 answers correct
you got 70 percent of 20 answers correct
you got 70 "out of 100" of 20 answers correct
you got (70/100) of 20 answers correct
ending up with maths...
you got (70/100) x 20 answers correct
answer is therefore 14
jon
