Question

Laura ordered a set of blue and green pencils. She received 60 pencils, and 31% of them were green. About how many green pencils did Laura receive?

Answer 1

Data:

Green pencils: 31%

Total of pencils: 100%=60pencils

If the 100% is the total of the pencils you can find the number of green pencils with a rule of three:

Then the number of green pencils is 18,6 or about 19$\frac{31\cdot60}{100}=18.6$