{"id":23647,"date":"2025-06-17T19:59:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:59:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/?p=23647"},"modified":"2025-06-17T19:59:39","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T19:59:39","slug":"if-35-of-the-140-cars-delivered-to-a-dealer-were-blue-what-percent-of-the-car-is-blue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/if-35-of-the-140-cars-delivered-to-a-dealer-were-blue-what-percent-of-the-car-is-blue\/","title":{"rendered":"if 35 of the 140 cars delivered to a dealer were blue, what percent of the car is blue"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">if 35 of the 140 cars delivered to a dealer were blue, what percent of the car is blue<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><mark style=\"background-color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 0)\" class=\"has-inline-color has-vivid-cyan-blue-color\"><strong>The correct answer and explanation is:<\/strong><\/mark><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Correct Answer:<\/strong><br>To find the percentage of cars that are blue: Percentage=(35140)\u00d7100=25%\\text{Percentage} = \\left( \\frac{35}{140} \\right) \\times 100 = 25\\%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Explanation (300 words):<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To determine what percent of the cars delivered to the dealer were blue, we use a simple <strong>percentage formula<\/strong>: Percentage=(PartWhole)\u00d7100\\text{Percentage} = \\left( \\frac{\\text{Part}}{\\text{Whole}} \\right) \\times 100<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In this case:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Part<\/strong> = Number of blue cars = 35<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Whole<\/strong> = Total number of cars = 140<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We plug these values into the formula: (35140)\u00d7100=25%\\left( \\frac{35}{140} \\right) \\times 100 = 25\\%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This means <strong>25% of the cars delivered were blue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why This Works:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Percentages are a way of expressing a part out of 100. When we say \u201c25%,\u201d we\u2019re saying 25 out of every 100 items are of a certain kind. So, calculating what percent one number is of another involves dividing the part by the total and then multiplying by 100 to convert it to a percent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In practical terms, if a car dealer receives 140 vehicles and 35 of them are blue, the blue ones represent one-quarter of the total. One-quarter (or \u00bc) is mathematically equivalent to 0.25, and when expressed as a percent, it becomes: 0.25\u00d7100=25%0.25 \\times 100 = 25\\%<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why Percentages Are Useful:<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Using percentages makes it easy to compare proportions across different situations. For example, if another dealer received 200 cars and 50 were blue, they also received 25% blue cars. This standardization allows us to compare different-sized groups quickly and fairly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In conclusion, <strong>25% of the cars delivered were blue<\/strong>, and this is found by using the formula for percentage based on part and whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>if 35 of the 140 cars delivered to a dealer were blue, what percent of the car is blue The correct answer and explanation is: Correct Answer:To find the percentage of cars that are blue: Percentage=(35140)\u00d7100=25%\\text{Percentage} = \\left( \\frac{35}{140} \\right) \\times 100 = 25\\% Explanation (300 words): To determine what percent of the cars delivered [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quiz-questions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23647"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23648,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23647\/revisions\/23648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gaviki.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}