Out of 20 words, Janet spelled 10 of them correctly. What percent of the words did Janet spell correctly?
The fraction [tex]\frac{10}{20}[/tex] represents the 10 words that Janet spelled correctly out of all the words she spelled.
To find out what percent of the words that Janet spelled correctly, we can turn [tex]\frac{10}{20}[/tex] into a percent.
Before we turn it into a percent, we can reduce it by dividing both the numerator and denominator by the Greatest Common Factor of 10 and 20 using 10.
10 ÷ 10 = 1
20 ÷ 10 = 2
1 ÷ 2 = 0.5
0.5 × 100 = 50%
Therefore, Janet spelled 50% of the words correctly.
