At Union Middle School, 99 boys, or 36% of the boys, play basketball. How many boys attend Union Middle School?
1 Answer
Apr 21, 2016
There are 275 boys in the school.
Explanation:
Rewording the question we get,
36% of the total number of boys play basketball, this is 99 boys.
The word of in a word problem means multiply and the word is means equals.
36% of total is 99.
