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8th grade math help pls :P?

A study in your town found that 54 in 1,762 people have a post office box.What percent of the people in town have a post office box?Round to the nearest hundredth of a percent where necessary.

Can u also pls explain how u got the answer?I completely forgot how to get the answer. Thanks in advance!! :D

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  • 1 decade ago
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    54 in 1762 is also 54/1762 (Think of it as a fraction.) To get a percentage all you have to do is divide the top number by the bottom number (54 divided by 1762). You get .0306(and a whole bunch of other numbers). When you round that off it's .03 To get a percentage all you do is move the decimal 2 places to the right. That 3%.

    Hope that helps!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    This is pretty easy stuff, didn't your teacher explain to you? Well ok, 54/1762 is the number of people who have a post office box. The line " / " means divide. The rest I think you should know how to do. But in case you don't, you'll end up with a decimal number = 0.3064699... Round it to the nearest hundredth and you'll be fine.

  • 1 decade ago

    to find the percentage, you take 54 divides for 1762 = 0.03 then multiply to 100 to get 3% . Round to the nearest hundredth means 2 decimal point only.

  • 1 decade ago

    um i think u have to divide 54/1762 which = about 3%

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  • benoff
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    First hour became into 4/15 of 180km. meaning 180km divided by utilising 15 circumstances 4 = 48km. Repeat this for 2nd hour that's 5/8 of 48km = 30km For 0.33 hour you upload up the km traveled from the 1st 2 and subtract 12.5 that's (78km - 12.5km) that's sixty 5.5km. finally upload all of them up 48km+30km+sixty 5.5km = 143.5 and subtract this from the completed (180km-143.5km) = 36.5km traveled in the fourth hour. i need to be incorrect yet wish this permits.

  • 1 decade ago

    easy way to understand

    out of 1762 ---------------54 people have it

    out of 100----------------how many people have it?

    54 X 100

    --------------- =3.0646

    1762

    I THINK YOU SHOULD GET IT NOW.

  • 1 decade ago

    Umm shouldn't you figure that out yourself?????

    I mean, this could be your homework!

    Source(s): common sense
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