A shop has $500$ shirts, out of which $15$ are defective. What percentage of shirts are defective?

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Solution

Here the number of defective shirts are $15$ , out of $500$
So, the percentage of defective shirts are $\frac{15}{500} \times 100 = \frac{1500}{500} = 3 %$
Hence the percentage of defective shirts is $3 %$

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