Question

cassie brought chocolate and vanilla cupcakes to school for her birthday. 100 students decided to take a cupcake, and 60% of them picked vanilla. how many people picked a vanilla cupcake?

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Explanation:

Step1: Convert percentage to decimal

60% can be written as $0.6$.

Step2: Multiply total students by decimal

We have 100 students in total. To find the number of students who picked vanilla, we calculate $100\times0.6$.
$100\times0.6 = 60$

Answer:

60