Question

Carl buys songs to download them to his computer. He has 20 rock songs, 15 country songs, 10 world songs and 5 classical songs. There are 50 in total. What fration of the songs were country? Find fraction for each type of song. Write them in simplest form and give its percent equivalent. Please explain the process

Answer 1

Answer with explanation:

He has 20 rock songs, 15 country songs, 10 world songs and 5 classical songs.

There are 50 in total.

• The fraction of songs which are rock songs are:

             $\dfrac{20}{50}$

which in simplest fraction is given by:

                    $\dfrac{2}{5}$

and on multiplying the fraction with 100 we get the percent of songs.

Hence,

$\dfrac{2}{5}\times 100=40\%$

• The fraction of songs which are country songs are:

             $\dfrac{15}{50}$

which in simplest fraction is given by:

                    $\dfrac{3}{10}$

Hence,

$\dfrac{3}{10}\times 100=30\%$

• The fraction of songs which are world songs are:

             $\dfrac{10}{50}$

which in simplest fraction is given by:

                    $\dfrac{1}{5}$

Hence,

$\dfrac{1}{5}\times 100=20\%$

• The fraction of songs which are classical songs are:

             $\dfrac{5}{50}$

which in simplest fraction is given by:

                    $\dfrac{1}{10}$

Hence,

$\dfrac{1}{10}\times 100=10\%$