Question

In one particular suburb, there are 30 families that own a boxer. If there are a total of 50 families that own a dog in general, then what percentage of dog owners have a boxer?

Answer 1

`60%`

Explanation:

To get percentages, take the part of a population that is being specified and divided that by the whole population and multiply that value by `100%`.

So there are `30` people that own boxers, this is the specific population that is being compared to the whole dog-owning population, which is comprised of `50` total families. So

`30/50` can be reduced to `3/5` and that gives us `.6`

When that value is multiplied by `100%`, it gives us our percentage of

`.6 * 100% = 60`