Know Your Keywords — Math, Standard
Point 12 — Nested percentage problems
What do we see?
A percentage within a percentage.
What do we understand?
Draw a tree diagram, and start with the isolated statement.
Question 1 of 4
On a plot of land, 52.0% of the square footage is farmland and the remaining square footage is pasture. There are buildings on exactly 21.5% of the square footage of the farmland, and there are buildings on exactly 14.0% of the square footage of the pasture. If there are buildings on exactly p% of the square footage of the plot of land, what is the value of p?