Question

Chloe has 500 marbles. 24% of them are red. How many red marbles does she have?

Answer 1

Answer:

120

Step-by-step explanation:

Chloe has marbles = 500

Percentages of them are red = 24%

Red marbles = ?

Percentage of x = x/100 × y

Here, x is the percentage and y is the number of things.

In this question, y is 500 and x is 24%.

Hence:

24/100 × 500 = 24 × 5 = 120

Thus, Chloe has 120 numbers of red marble.