Question 7(Multiple Choice Worth 5 points) (MC)

Read the following sentence:

Your brakes sound weird like they're jaming or breaking.

Which of the following words is used or spelled incorrectly in the sentence above?

Brakes
Weird
Jaming
Breaking

Breaking

Explanation:

The term breaking is incorrectly used in this statement.

part a. there were 250 teenagers surveyed (100% of tenagers = 250)therefore 1 % = 250/100 = 2.5 76% = 1% x 76 = 2.5 x 76 = 190 teenagers of the 250 surveyed liked burgerspart b: jane surveyed 25% (which is equal to 50 teenagers, i.e. a quarter of the teenagers surveyed is 50) to get 100% we simply get 4 quarters, i.e. multiply 50 by 4 = 200 teenagers were surveyed by jane. part c: it is impossible to give an example where a percentage is greater than 100%, since, by definition , percentage means "per 100".