Question

Ramon earns $1,735 each month and pays $53.10 for electricity.To the nearest tenth of a percent,what percent of Ramon’s earning are spent on electricity each month

Answer 1

Since $53.10 is a part of $1,735, you would write it as the fraction 53.10/1,735.

Dividing this, you get 0.0306.

To turn this in to a fraction, you multiply it by 100, making it 3.06%.

Since we’re rounding to the nearest tenth of a percent, our final answer would be 3.1%.