Percent Problem with Different Answers

Percent Problem with Different Answers
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We have 81% of our team here today and we have 16 team members. How many members are missing today?

A) 2 B) 3 C) 4 D) 12 E) 13

My answer:

I did $(0.81)(16) = 12.96$ Rounding up that would give us E) 13.

However, I thought about how it said how many members were missing. So wouldn't se have to do $16-13 = 3$. which would give us B) 3? Please help me with this.

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