Question

mr. dean often told funny stories about his pet cat, snowball, to his class at school. after showing the class a picture of snowball one day, he asked the students to guess the cats age. then, he told them snowball was 16 years old! reggie had guessed an age 37.5% less than that. what age did reggie guess for snowball?
square years

Explanation:

Step1: Find the percentage Reggie guessed

Reggie guessed an age 37.5% less than 16. So we first find 37.5% of 16. 37.5% is equal to $\frac{3}{8}$ (since 37.5 = $\frac{37.5}{100}$ = $\frac{3}{8}$). So 37.5% of 16 is $16\times\frac{3}{8}=6$.

Step2: Calculate Reggie's guess

Now, we subtract this from 16 to find Reggie's guess. So $16 - 6 = 10$.

Answer:

10