There are 650 sixth graders in the school and 338 of the sixth graders are girls. What percent of the sixth graders are girls?
The fraction represents the number of sixth graders that are girls out of all the sixth graders in the school.
To find what percent of sixth graders are girls, we can turn into a percent.
We can first reduce this fraction by dividing both the numerator and denominator by the Greatest Common Factor of 338 and 650 using 26.
338 ÷ 26 = 13
650 ÷ 26 = 25
Our reduced fraction is .
13 ÷ 25 = 0.52
0.52 × 100 = 52%
Therefore, 52% of the sixth grade students are girls.