Answer:
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- <u><em>a. Meg needs to find the part</em></u>
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- <u><em>b. Steve needs to find the percent.</em></u>
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Step-by-step explanation:
The question is incomplete.
This is the complete question:
<em>Meg is a veterinarian. In a given week, 50% of the 16 dogs she saw were Boxers. Steve is also a veterinarian. In the same week, 7 of the 35 dogs he saw this week were Boxers. Each wants to record the part the whole, and the percent.</em>
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<em>a. Does Meg need to find the part, the whole, or the percent.</em>
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<em>b. Does Steve need to find the part, the whole, or the percent.</em>
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<h2>Solution to the problem</h2>
<u><em>a. Does Meg need to find the part, the whole, or the percent.</em></u>
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<em>Meg</em> already knows the <em>whole</em> and the <em>percent</em>.
The whole is the entire number of dogs seen: <em>16 dog</em>s.
The percent is <em>50%.</em>
Hence, she needs to find the part: this is how many (what part) of the 16 dogs she saw were boxers.
And she can do with a simple operation:
- Part = whole × percent = 16 × 50% = 8. This is 8 dogs of 16 were boxers.
<u>b. Does Steve need to find the part, the whole, or the percent.</u>
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He already knows <em>the part</em> (<em>7 of the 35 dogs were boxers</em>) and <em>the whole </em>(<em>35 dogs</em>).
Then he needs to find the percent, which he can do using the next operation:
- Percent = (part / whole) × 100 = (7/35)×100 = 20%
