Question

A middle school took all of its 6th grade students on a field trip to see a ballet at a theater that has 1300 seats. The students filled 1001 of the seats in the theater. What percentage of the seats in the theater were filled by the 6th graders on the trip?

Answer 1

77%

I like to use ratios and cross multiply for problems like this. Take the part (1001) over the whole (1300), and that equals x percent of 100 percent.

1001/1300 = x/100
100100 = 1300x
x = 77