The manager determined that 35% of the shoes were sneakers. What simplified fractions of the shoes were sneakers

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Jacob Lane

15 April, 04:47

The manager determined that 35% of the shoes were sneakers. What simplified fractions of the shoes were sneakers

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Beau Burns · Answer 1

Percent is out of 100. By determining this, we figure that 35/100 would be the fraction you'd start with. To simplify, we divide them by the same numbers to get whole numbers. If you divide both by 5 (35:5=7 and 100:5=20), you'd get 7/20. This is the simplest form of the fraction.