There are 25 students in Ms. Nguyen's second-grade class. In the class election, 4 students voted for Benjamin, 12 voted for Sahil, and 9 voted for Maria. What percentage of the class voted for Maria?

It is 36%, because a percent is defined as a part to a whole, so in this scenario the part is the number of votes for maria and the whole is the number of kids in the class, so if we put it into fraction form we'll 9/25, which can be increased to 36/100 or you can input it into a calculator and convert to percent form