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In a shipment of 45,000,000 shirts, 4,950,000 are white. What percentage of the shirts are white shirts?
Correct Answer: A
Your Answer:
Explanation
A
The question asks for a percent based on the information provided. Start by ballparking: 10% of 45,000,000 is 4,500,000, so 4,950,000 is a little more than 10%. Eliminate (C) and (D) because they are much too large. Choice (A) is likely correct, but to check, plug in 11%. Percent means out of 100, so 11% can be represented as . Multiply this by the total number of shirts to get
. This matches the number of white shirts given in the question. The correct answer is (A).