Question

Paula a college student earned $3,600 one summer during the following semester she spent $2500 for tuition $650 for rent and $434 food the rest went for miscellaneous expenses what fractions show the amounts Paula spent on tuition rent food and miscellaneous expenses

Answer 1

The fraction you are looking for is expenses/earnings 

So (2500+650+434)/3600
=224/225 

If you want to turn this into a percentage just multiply by 100, to give you 99.56%.