Question

there are 1,000 students in justins high school. 82% of the students are taking spanish. how many students are taking spanish?
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Explanation:

Step1: Convert percentage to decimal

To find a percentage of a number, we first convert the percentage to a decimal. 82% is equivalent to $0.82$ (since $82\%=\frac{82}{100} = 0.82$).

Step2: Multiply by total number of students

We multiply this decimal by the total number of students (1000) to find the number of students taking Spanish. So we calculate $1000\times0.82$.
$1000\times0.82 = 820$

Answer:

820