Question

a circle graph shows the favorite sports of girls at their middle school 27% soccer if there are 508 girls at the middle school about how many to soccer as a favorite sport

Answer 1

It is about 137 girls

Answer 2

The answer is around 137 girls. This is how you find the percentage of a number in the future.

First you change the percentage into a decimal. You do that by multipying by 100/ moving the decimal to the left twice, since multipying by 100 moves the decimal to the right twice.

$100 \times 27 \: percent = .27$
Then, you multiply .27 by 508 in order to get the number of girls out of the total 508, which is ABOUT 137, since you intially get 137.16, but the questions asks for an estimate.

$.27 \times 508 = 137.16 \\ about \: 137$
There you go. :)