document.write( "Question 1036294: In Political science class they are 51 Democratics,47 Republicans, and 2 Independents.Of the 20 women in the class 16 are Democratic s and 4 are Republicans?
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document.write( "a) what percentage of the Democratic/Republicans students are Republican women?
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document.write( "b) Among the women in the class, what is the percentage of Republicans? \n" );
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Algebra.Com's Answer #650991 by Theo(13342)![]() ![]() You can put this solution on YOUR website! the total of the democratic and republican students is 98. \n" ); document.write( "of those, 4 are republican women. \n" ); document.write( "the ratio of republican women to democratic and republican students is 4/98. \n" ); document.write( "the percent would be 4/98 * 100 = 4.08% rounded to 2 decimal places. \n" ); document.write( "among the women in the class, the ratio of republicans to democrats is 4/20 * 100 = 400/20 = 20%. \n" ); document.write( "if you make a table, your breakdown would look like this: \n" ); document.write( " \r\n" ); document.write( " democrats republicans independents total\r\n" ); document.write( "women 16 4 0 20\r\n" ); document.write( "men 35 43 2 80\r\n" ); document.write( "total 51 47 2 100\r\n" ); document.write( "\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( "you would actually work your way back from the totals. \n" ); document.write( "51 democrats, of which 16 are women, means that 35 democrats are men. \n" ); document.write( "47 republicans, of which 4 are women, means that 43 republicans are men. \n" ); document.write( "2 independents, of which 0 are women, means that 2 independents are men.\r \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( "\n" ); document.write( " \n" ); document.write( " |