A car emits 3,254 kg of carbon dioxide into the environment each year. A hybrid car emits 2,308 kg of carbon dioxide in the environment each year. What percentage of the conventional car's carbon dioxide is emitted by the hybrid car each year?

Question

708 views around the world

You can reuse this answer
Creative Commons License

Answer 1 · 2016-05-01T02:12:36

I found #71%#

You can think that a fraction in "real" world correspods to the same fraction in "%" world;
so you have:

#(3,254)/(2,308)=(100%)/(x%)#

rearranging:

#x%=100%(2,308)/(3,254)=70.9%~~71%#