Laisha works at a produce stand. While sorting apples, she found that 12 out 50 were bruised.
What percentage of the apples were bruised.
A) 62%
B) 24%
C) 38%
D) 0.24%
The proportion can be written as:
percent (%)
part
whole
OR
percent (%)
100
100
of

First step is to get rid of the square root. remember that a square root is the same as raising to the (1/2) power. see below: multiply exponents per exponent rules to get: remember you subtract exponents from the denominator and add exponents in the numerator so: simplify further: so a is the correct choice. if you don't understand this google exponent rules and it will you understand. look at the image results.