Question

26 out of the 65 magazines at the bookstore are women's magazines. What percentage of the magazines at the bookstore are women's magazines?
Write your answer using a percent sign (%).

Answer 1

The fraction $\frac{26}{64}$ represents the number of women's magazines out of all the other magazines at the book store.

To find what percent of the magazines are women's magazines, we can turn $\frac{26}{64}$ into a percent.

To write a fraction as a percent in lowest terms, first remember that a percent is a ratio of a number to 100 so to write 26/64 as a percent, we need to find a fraction equivalent to 26/64 with 100 in the denominator. We can do this by setting up a proportion.

40% is the answer

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