Question

In a special olymics,a team of 70 players was sent.Twenty percent competed in soccer.How many competed in soccer?

Answer 1

What you want to know here is: what is 20 percent of 70?

you calculate it by multiplying 70 by 20 percent.

20 percent can be written as a fraction: 20 over 100:

$\frac{20}{100}$

which means that the multiplication will be:

$70* \frac{20}{100}$=$70* \frac{2}{10}$=7*2=14

the correct answer is: there were 14 competitors in soccer among these players!