Question

There are 800 members in an astronomy club, and 320 of them are females. What percent of the members are males?

Answer 1

There are 800 members in an astronomy club and 320 of the members are females. What percent of the members are males.

First, we need to understand what the question is asking us to do. We know that there are 800 members in the club and that 320 of the members are females. To find out how many males there are, we can subtract 320 from 800 and we will get us a difference of 480. We now know that 480 of the members in the astronomy club are males.

To find what percent are males, we can make a fraction. $\frac{480}{800}$ represents the 480 males out of the entire club.

We can turn $\frac{480}{800}$ into a fraction. We can reduce$\frac{480}{800}$ by dividing both the numerator and denominator by the greatest common factor of 480 and 800 using 160.

Finally, we have our reduced fraction which is $\frac{3}{5}$

3 ÷ 5 = 0.6

0.6 × 100 = 60%

Therefore, 60% of the members in the astronomy clubs are males.