Question

The stadium has 9400 seats. 7990 of these seats are in the sun today. What percent of seats are NOT In the sun?

Answer 1

Answer:

15%

Step-by-step explanation:

When looking at the problem, you are given the total number of seats and the number of seats that are in the sun. There are two ways that you can go about this problem

1) In this method, you want to find how many seats are not in the sun. First you would take the total number of seats (9400) minus the number of seats in the sun (7990) to find the amount of seats not in the sun. 9400 - 7990 = 1410 seats. After this, you simply want to find the percentage by doing the part over the whole multiplied by 100 and it would look like this: (1410 / 9400) * (100) = 15%

2) You can find the percentage of seats in the sun and you know that it's compliment is the seats out of the sun. So it would look similar to the last one by doing part over whole multiplied by 100: (7990 / 9400) * (100) = 85% in the sun. Then you would subtract that from 100%: 100 - 85 = 15% of seats not in the sun.

I hope that this helps!

Answer 2

Answer:

15%

Step-by-step explanation:

We assume, that the number 9400 is 100% - because it's the output value of the task.

x is the value we are looking for.

If 100% equals 9400, so we can write it down as 100%=9400.

We know, that x% equals 7990 of the output value, so we can write it down as x%=7990.

Now we have two simple equations:

100%=9400

x%=7990

where left sides of both of them have the same units, and both right sides have the same units, so we can do something like that:

100%/x%=9400/7990

Now we just have to solve the simple equation, and we will get the solution we are looking for.

Solution for 7990 is what percent of 9400.