Answer to Question #303505 in Financial Math for ERICKA

Question

1. Hannah invested 75,000 for a pastry business. This amount is 25% of her total savings. How much is Hannah's total savings?

2. John has 2 baskets of mangoes to sell. If 45% of the mangoes are unripe and there are 240 mangoes in all, how many ripe mangoes are there?

3. On Christmas Eve, your store's sales amount to 250,000. This amount is 75% of the total sales for that month. How much is your store's total sales for the month?

Answer 1

1. From the question, 75000 represent 25% of Hannah's savings. To find the total value, we will compute the amount that is represented by 100% as shown below

25%=75000

100%=?

We will now cross multiply the above values to find the total savings.

(75000*100%)/25%

=300,000

So Hannah's total savings is 300,000

2. If 45% of the mangoes are unripe then 55% of the mangoes are ripe.

Since John has 240 mangoes in total, we want to find the number of ripe mangoes.

100%=240

55%= ?

We will now cross multiply

(55%*240)/100%

=132

So there are 132 ripe mangoes

3. 250,000 represents 75% of the store's sale amount. To find the store's total sales, we will find the amount that is represented by 100%

75%=250000

100%=?

We will now cross multiply

(100%*250000)/75%

=333,333.33

So the store's total sales for the month were 333,333.33