Question

In a class of 40 students, 3/4 have brown eyes, 5 students have green eyes and the rest have blue eyes.
What percentage of the students in the class have blue eyes?

Answer 1

Answer:

12.5%

Step-by-step explanation:

total = 40

3/4(40) is brown eyes

= 30 members have brown eyes

5 students have green eyes

so,

remaining 5 students have blue eyes

=(5/40) *100

= 12.5% have blue eyes

Answer 2

Answer:

12.5 % have blue eyes.

Step-by-step explanation:

In a class of 40 students, 3/4 have brown eyes which is 75% of the whole class.

so the remaining is 25% which will be distributed to the count of students with green eyes and blue eyes.