SOLUTION: Please help me with this word promblem. In a group of 60 children. 12 have brown eyes. What percent have brown eyes?

Question 708433: Please help me with this word promblem.
In a group of 60 children. 12 have brown eyes. What percent have brown eyes?
Answer by josh_jordan(263) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
To solve this problem, figure out what we know: We know that 12 out of the 60 children have brown eyes. In other words, 12/60. To find the percentage, divide 12 by 60 and multiply that result by 100:

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Therefore 20% of the children have brown eyes.

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