SOLUTION: At a company fish fry, ½ in attendance are employees. Employees’ spouses are 1/3 of the attendance. What is the percentage of the people in attendance who are not employees or empl

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Question 260931: At a company fish fry, ½ in attendance are employees. Employees’ spouses are 1/3 of the attendance. What is the percentage of the people in attendance who are not employees or employee spouses?


Found 2 solutions by richwmiller, Edwin McCravy:
Answer by richwmiller(17219)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
e+w+n=1
1/2+1/3+n=1
n=1/6
3/6+2/6=5/6
1-5/6=1/6
Caught me again Ed.
100*1/6=percentage
However getting the percentage is much easier than the other tutor suggests.
Just divide 100 by 6 and the result is the percent.
Answer by Edwin McCravy(20055)   (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!

The question was "WHAT PERCENTAGE".  The other tutor answered 
it as though the question had asked "WHAT FRACTION?"  

First change  to a decimal by dividing the denominator into the
numerator, like this, writing a decimal and two zeros after the 1

   .16   
6)1.00
    6
    40
    36
     4

So after reducing  to  you have


That's the decimal value.  Now move the decimal
two places to the right making it invisible and
put on a  and the final answer is 

Edwin
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