SOLUTION: Of the students in your class, 12% are left-handed. What fraction of the students are left-handed? are there more right-handed or left-handed students? Explain.

Question 954879: Of the students in your class, 12% are left-handed. What fraction of the students are left-handed? are there more right-handed or left-handed students?
Explain.

Answer by Fombitz(32388) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
12%=
For the next question, I'm assuming that there can only be right-handed or left-handed and that no student is considered ambidextrous.
So if you're not left handed you must be right handed.
So the percentage right handed would be,

In fraction form,

So there are more right handed than left handed students.

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