Question

There are eight turtles 15 fish and 17 pelicans what percent of the animals are pelicans

Answer 1

The number of animals are given as;

$\begin{gathered} \text{Turtles}=8 \\ \text{Fish}=15 \\ \text{Pelicans}=17 \\ \text{Total animals}=40 \end{gathered}$

The percentage that are pelicans would be calculated as follows;

$\begin{gathered} \text{Percentage Pelicans}=\frac{17}{40}\times\frac{100}{1} \\ \text{Percentage Pelicans}=\frac{1700}{40} \\ P\text{ercentage Pelicans}=42.5\text{ } \end{gathered}$

ANSWER:

The percentage of the animals that are Pelicans is 42.5%