Molly is arranging flowers at the Chelsea flower show. There are 400 flowers in her display. The flowers are pink, yellow or purple.
3/8 of the flowers are pink.
82 of the flowers are yellow.
What percentage of the flowers are purple.
Answer:
To find out how many pink flowers there are we can do 400 x 3/8 = 150 pink
To find out how many purple flowers there are we can add pink and yellow together and subtract from 400, 150 + 82 = 232 400 – 232 = 168.
To find the percentage of purple flowers we can do 168/400 x100 = 42%