SOLUTION: please show me how to do this percentage if in a class there 16 pupils, 25% are boys what percentage are girls

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Question 908966: please show me how to do this percentage
if in a class there 16 pupils, 25% are boys what percentage are girls
Answer by luke94(89)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
if 25% are boys write it as a decimal..

then multiply that by the number of pupils:
therefore 4boys
which means that there are 12 girls or 75% are girls.
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