Jackie ordered a set of wood and metal clothes pins. Of the 276 pins, 172 were wood. What percentage of the clothes pins were me

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tal? Round to the nearest hundredth.

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timurjin [86] · Answer 1 · 2022-02-20T22:30:45+03:00

We know that 172 of them were wood, so the rest are metal. To find that number we do:

276 - 172 = 104 metal pins.

To find the percentage that they were metal, take the number of metal pins and divide by the total number of pins:

104/276 is about 0.3768.

Multiply this by 100:

37.68

So, the percent of metal pins is 37.68%.