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Know Your Keywords — Math, Standard

Point 12Nested 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?