SOLUTION: There are 15 girls and 12 boys in a class. What percentage is girls?
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Question 803129: There are 15 girls and 12 boys in a class. What percentage is girls?
Answer by homeworkhedgehog(9) (Show Source): You can put this solution on YOUR website!
To find a percentage, you need to divide the number of things that you want by the total number of things.
So we want to know the percentage of girls.
To turn it into a percentage, we move the decimal over two spots and get 44.4%.
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