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A veterinarian treated 7 dogs, 13 cats, 4 horses, and 3 ferrets. What percentage of his patients were small animals?

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nap14hockey

As per your defention, horses are the only thing considered "not small".  To find the percentage, you take the number of what you are trying to find the percentage of divided by the total number.


So, 7 dogs + 13 cats + 3 ferrets = 23 Small animals

7 dogs + 13 cats + 3 ferrets + 4 horses = 27 total animals.


So,

[tex]\frac{23}{27}*100[/tex]

The reason we multiply by 100 is because the division gives us a decimal, and a percentage is a part out of 100.

So by doing the calculation we get

85.18%

dubeyshailja64

Mathematics defines a percentage as a number or ratio expressed as fraction of 100.

It is denoted using % sign.

General formula to calculate percentage is:

                                   [tex]\rm Percentage=\dfrac{\rm Value}{\rm Total\: value} \times 100%.[/tex]

For the given question, percentage of small animals is [tex]\rm 85.19\%.[/tex]

Calculation of percentage of small animals:

[tex]\begin{aligned} \rm Total\: animals &= 7 + 13 + 4 + 3\\&= 27 \end[/tex]

[tex]\begin{aligned} \rm Number\:of\:small\:animals &= 7 + 13 + 3\\&= 23\end[/tex]

Small animals includes all animals except horses.

Therefore, percentage of small animals will be:

         [tex]\rm \begin{aligned}\rm Percentage &= \dfrac{\rm Small \:animals}{\rm Total\:animals} \times 100\\\\ &= \dfrac{23}{27} \times 100\\\\ &= 85.19\% \end{aligned}[/tex]

Percentage of patients to be small animals is [tex]\rm 85.19\%[/tex].

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