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silas is going to use 5 ounces of glue and 2 ounces of detergent. what percent of his slime is detergent?

can you explain to me how to do this problem ?

a. 5%
b. 40%
c. 71.4%
d. 28.6%
e. 42.9%
f. 60%
g. 250%

so we're trying to figure what portion of silas' slime is detergent. we know that his slime is a combo of 5 oz glue and 2 oz detergent for a total of 7 oz of slime.

what we want to find is how much of those 7 oz of slime is detergent.

quite simply 2 oz of the 7 is detergent.

to make that into a percent just divide 2 by 7.

2/7 = 0.2857

then move the decimal over two spots to get

28.57 or

D. 28.6%

just remember that percents are just how much makes up the whole.

72 is the answer to this problem