A company that makes hair-care products had 4,000 people try a new shampoo. Of 4,000 people, 24 had a mild allergic reaction. What percent of the people had a mild allergic reaction? Please help me!!!

0.6%

Step-by-step explanation:

= 0.6%

To get the solution, we are looking for, we need to point out what we know.

1. We assume, that the number 4000 is 100% - because it's the output value of the task.

2. We assume, that x is the value we are looking for.

3. If 100% equals 4000, so we can write it down as 100%=4000.

4. We know, that x% equals 24 of the output value, so we can write it down as x%=24.

5. Now we have two simple equations:

1) 100%=4000

2) x%=24

where left sides of both of them have the same units, and both right sides have the same units, so we can do something like that:

100%/x%=4000/24

6. Now we just have to solve the simple equation, and we will get the solution we are looking for.

7. Solution for 24 is what percent of 4000

100%/x%=4000/24

(100/x)*x=(4000/24)*x       - we multiply both sides of the equation by x

100=166.666666667*x       - we divide both sides of the equation by (166.666666667) to get x

100/166.666666667=x

0.6=x

x=0.6

now we have:

24 is 0.6% of 4000

stew reads at the fastest rate of 265 words per minute.

step-by-step explanation:

it's a given that felicia reads at 260 word per minute and on connie's graph we can see that she reads 200 words per minute. since stew's table tells us that he read 795 in 3 minutes, we can divide 795 by 3 to find out how many words he reads per minute.

795/3 = 265

stew reads 265 words per minute - he reads at the fastest rate since felecia reads at 260 words per minute and connie reads at 200 words per minute.

stew (265) > felecia (260) > connie (200)