Ramon earns $1,735 each month and pays $53.10 for electricity. To the nearest tenth of a percent, what percent of Ramon's earnings are spent on electricity each month?
So what you can do is divide 53.10 by 1735 to get percentage 0.0306051873 is your decimal, so move it right 2 places to get 3.06% of his money. You asked for the nearest 10th of a percent, so you round that to 3.1%