Question

At a school fair 70% of the people are under 16 years old. One third of the people remaining are teachers. If there are 21 teachers at the fair. How many people are there at the fair in total?

Answer 1

In the fairest school 70% are below 16 years old 1/3 are teachers which is equals to = 21 Let’s start solving: => 1/3 of 100% => 100 / 3 = 33.33% thus 33.33% = 21 => 21 x 3 = 63, is the total number of people in the school. Let’s try solving the number of people below 16 years old Have you notice that you are asking for a 70% of students but there are already 33.33% of teacher. Thus your given problem is not right already. => 100% - 33.33% = 66.67% that’s the only remaining percentage and not 70% => 63 * .6667 = 42.0021 Thus, there are around 42 people who are 16 years old younger.