Question

there are 60 seventh graders in the school. This make up 15% of the student in the school. How many students are in the school,total?

Answer 1

60 seventh graders make up 15% of the students in the school.

The procedure to solve this problem will be to first, divide 60 by 15 to find how much people make up 1%, and then multiply that number of people by 100% to find the total of students.

Step 1. Divide 60 people by 15% to find how many people are 1% of the students:

$\frac{60}{15}=4$

4 students are 1% of the total students.

Step 2. Now, we multiply the number we just find in step 1 by 100% to find the total amount of students in the school:

$4\times100=400$

There are 400 students in the school.

Answer: 400