There are 100 students in a drawing contest, and 58 of them are girls. what percent of the students in the contest are girls?

There are 100 students in a drawing contest and 58 of students are girls. What percent of students in the drawing contest are girls?

The fraction represents the number of girls in the drawing contest out of all the students.

To find out what percent of the students are in the drawing contest, we can change into a percent.

We can first reduce the fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by the Greatest Common Factor of 58 and 100 using 2.

58 ÷ 2 = 29

100 ÷ 2 = 50

Our reduced fraction is .

29 ÷ 50 = 0.58

0.58 × 100 = 58%

Therefore, 58% of the students in the drawing contest are girls.

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