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?
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.
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
