Question

A 230 pound man, a 140 pound woman, a 750 pound crate of equipment, an 80 pound bag of concrete. What percent of the total weight was concrete?
What percent of the total weight was human?

Answer 1

Concrete percent: 80/1200 = .0666666 = 6.7%
Human percent: 370/1200 = .308333 = 30.8 %