An inflatable swimming pool held 1,000 gallons of water. It sprang a leak, and 5% of the water leaked out of the pool. How many gallons of water leaked out?

50

Explanation:

If you want a percent as a decimal so you can divide you must make it a decimal for example in your case it would be like this, 0.05, then all you do is divide 1,000 by 0.05

what is the average time it took the car to travel 0.25 meters?

⇒ 2.23 seconds

what is the average time it took the car to travel 0.50 meters?

⇒ 3.13 seconds