Question

In a certain box of gloves, 12 pairs are size 7 and 24 are size 6. If all the gloves in the box are either size 6 or 7, what percent of the gloves are size 6

Answer 1

Answer:

1/3

Step-by-step explanation:

Your whole space is the total amount of pairs of gloves: 12 + 24= 36

Your interested in gloves of size 6. For calculating the percentage of those you just need to get the ration of all 6-size in your whole sample. This is:

12 / 36 = 1/3

The percent of 6-size gloves is 1/3 (or 0.333333)