Suppose a college student pays $500 for tuition fees. However, she also has to pay $350 for her textbooks (ouch!). What percent of her total education costs does she pay for her books?

Answer: Her books represent

percent (as a decimal) of her total costs.

Write your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent, but in decimal form. For example, if you saved 34.67%, you would round to 34.7% and enter. 347 as your answer.

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Jason Mckay

Mathematics

22 September, 17:12

Suppose a college student pays $500 for tuition fees. However, she also has to pay $350 for her textbooks (ouch!). What percent of her total education costs does she pay for her books?

Answer: Her books represent

percent (as a decimal) of her total costs.

Write your answer to the nearest tenth of a percent, but in decimal form. For example, if you saved 34.67%, you would round to 34.7% and enter. 347 as your answer.

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Dyer · Answer 1

Tuition costs = $500

Textbook costs = $350

Total cost = 500 + 350 = $850

Percent of costs due to textbooks = 100 * (350/850) = 41.1765%

Her books represent 41.2% of her total costs.

Answer: 0.412