Francis buys a package of 450 plastic forks. he uses 315 of the plastic forks. What percent of plastic forks did Francis use? show your work.

Since Francis used 315 forks out of 450 forks, we can set up a fraction like 315/450

We then want to simplify this fraction to get a percentage.

We can divide the top and bottom by 45, which is will give us a simplified fraction of 7/10, which is equal to the percent of 70%

Work to write: 315/450 = 7/10 = 0.7 = 70%