Hello!
We know that any given percentage can be expressed as a fraction with a denominator of 100, as follows:
[tex] \frac{x}{100} [/tex]
Because we want to find 25% of the celery sticks, we can convert this percentage into the following fraction:
[tex] \frac{25}{100} [/tex] = [tex] \frac{1}{4} [/tex]
Now multiply this reduced fraction by the number of celery sticks:
44 × [tex] \frac{1}{4} [/tex] = [tex] \frac{44}{4} [/tex]
The fraction [tex] \frac{44}{4} [/tex] can be reduced to a value of 11. We have now proven that 11 celery sticks received peanut butter.
I hope this helps!
