Question

In a bowl of 50 skittles, you have 12 yellow, 9 orange, 11 red, and 13 green. The rest of the skittles are purple. What percentage of the skittles are red? What percentage of the skittles are not green?

Answer 1

Answer:

percentage of red skittles = 22%

percentage of skittles that are not green = 74%

Explanation:

total skittles = 50

yellow = 12

orange = 9

red = 11

green = 13

purple = 50-12-9-11-13

= 5

1) percentage of red skittles

$\frac{red \: skittles}{total \: skittles} \times 100$

$\frac{11}{50} \times 100$

$\frac{22}{10}$

$22\%$

2) percentage of skittles that are not green

$\frac{total \: skittles - green \: skittles}{total \: skittles} \times 100$

$\frac{50 -13 }{50} \times 100$

$\frac{37}{50} \times 100$

$74\%$