In a classroom of 32 students, 14 are male. What percentage of the class is female?

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Miya Kemp

Mathematics

29 March, 19:34

In a classroom of 32 students, 14 are male. What percentage of the class is female?

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Hillary Pace · Answer 1

If we know that 14/32 of the class is male, this means that 18/32 of the class is female.

To convert a fraction to a percentage, we just divide the numerator by the denominator to get a decimal.

18/32 = 0.5625

Therefore, 56.25% of the class is female.