40% of students on a field trip love the museum. If there are 20 students on the field trip, how many love the museum?

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Mollie Gutierrez

2 April, 04:46

40% of students on a field trip love the museum. If there are 20 students on the field trip, how many love the museum?

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Nikolai Curry · Answer 1

Since there are 20 students on the field trip. Then 20 is the 100% total. Thus, to find how many people love the museum, we can simply multiply the total number of people by the percentage of interest, namely 40%

20*0.4 = 8

So, 8 people love the museum.