There are 756 students in a middle school. 44% in sports, 29% play band and 37% take school bus how many students in middle scool play in band?Explain your reasoning.
how many take the bus?
2006-11-15 10:58:23 · 8 answers · asked by Eric 2 in Education & Reference ➔ Homework Help
I can't figure it out. It's due tomorrow and I really need help!
2006-11-15 10:59:58 · update #1
Yes but 280+219+333=832 not 756
2006-11-15 11:21:38 · update #2
756x.29=219
By the way the only part you need to know about in this problem is the total number and the %. All the other stuff is junk they put in there to make it more difficult
Hope this helps
2006-11-15 11:01:05 · answer #1 · answered by nintendogamer91 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You mulitply 756 by 29%= 219 students play in the band...
Then multiply 756 by 37%= 280 students that take the bus
you have to round off the decimals
The reason this works is because percent has to be mulitiplied by the number of people that are all together....
2006-11-15 19:17:58 · answer #2 · answered by TRUE GRIT 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Take 756 (total number of students) times 0.29 (for 29 percent). Your answer will be the number of students in the band.
756 X 0.29 = 219.24 so 219 would be a correct answer.
For the bus, just change the percentage to 37. So........
756 X 0.37 = 280.83 round up to nearest whole number for an answer of 281.
2006-11-15 20:26:30 · answer #3 · answered by frenchy62 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
219 Students play in the band.
29% (0.29) x 756 = 219.24
However, it's really difficult to have 0.24 of a student (though this *could* be because the count includes a number of amputees.. : P ), therefore the number is rounded to the nearest whole number (as likely was the percentile).
2006-11-15 19:04:04 · answer #4 · answered by twylafox 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
29% of the students play band. So what's 29% of 756 students? It's fairly simple if you think about it.
2006-11-15 19:07:17 · answer #5 · answered by Bob 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
The other way you could work this out (Same general process, same answer)
756 / 100 = 7.56, which is 1%
7.56 * 29 = 219.24, which is 29%.
As stated above, round down.
It's actually 28.97% (approx) of students in band:
(219 / 756) * 100 gives 28.968253968253968253968253968254%.
2006-11-15 19:10:21 · answer #6 · answered by Minmi 6 · 0⤊ 3⤋
Change the percent to a decimal, and then multiply it by the total # of students. 29%=.29 .29x756=219. You can do the rest yourself.
2006-11-15 19:06:09 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wow. thats crazy!!!!!!!!!!!! I dont know the answer but Im in 7th grade and we never got that hard of a question in math. What school do you go to?
2006-11-15 19:03:33 · answer #8 · answered by dance_note2 2 · 0⤊ 3⤋