Acompany that manufactures bicycles reports that 2 out of every 50 bicycles are defective. what percent of the bicycles are defective? explain how you found your answer.

A percentage is simply a fraction with denominator 100. For example, you have that 74% is the same as 74/100.

So, you have to turn 2/50 into a fraction with denominator 100. If you multiply both numerator and denominator by 2, you get

To find what percentage of bikes are defective we first have to find the ratio. The ratio can be found by dividing both sides of the division. If we divide 2 by 2 we get 1 and if we divide 50 by 2 we get 25.

After we found our ratio which is 1 to 25 we can set up an equation that will help us solve the problem. Such as

We cross multiply do

Complete the multiplication

Simplify

the answer is true.

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