Question

10. There are 355 students at Median Middle School. If there 8% of the students were absent on Tuesday, how many students were absent? How many were present?​

Answer 1

To solve this question, we simply need to divide the total amount of students by 8% to find out how many students were absent and how many were present.

However, we can't simply multiply it by 8%, so we need to turn that into a decimal.

8% - 0.08

Multiply:

355 x 0.08

= 28.4

Round:

28 kids were absent

Subtract:

355 - 28

= 327

This means that 28 kids were absent, and 327 kids were present.