SOLUTION: Isabel has ridden 48 miles of a bike course. The course is 80 miles long. What percent of the course has Isabel ridden so far?

Question 724742: Isabel has ridden 48 miles of a bike course. The course is 80 miles long. What percent of the course has Isabel ridden so far?
Answer by erika514(39) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
Okay, this one is simple....
So we know that Isabel has ridden 48 miles of an 80 mile course. So we are going to use our info and convert it into a fraction. Isabel has ridden 48/80 of the course,but...we can simplify this fraction by dividing the numerator and denominator by 16 to get the smallest possible fraction to work with. Our simplified fraction is now 3/5. So... Then we divide 3 by 5 to get a decimal that will be converted to a percent. 3/5 is 0.6, which is equal to 60 percent. Our final answer is that Isabel rode 60 percent of the course so far. Hope this helps...let me know if you have more questions. :)
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