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Example Question #31 : Percentage
An artist's new album sold copies on its release date. If the U.S. makes up
of these sales, how many copies were sold on that day in the U.S.?
Let's set up a proportion to solve this problem, where represents the number of copies sold in the U.S. Remember that we can express
as a fraction.
Now, we can solve for the unknown by cross-multiplying.
Example Question #11 : How To Find The Part From The Whole With Percentage
Jane called one thousand times to tell you she's sorry. If you saw she was calling and let your phone go to voicemail of the time, how many voicemails would you have received if she left one each time?
None of the given answers
To solve this problem, we can set up a proportion. Remember we can express percentages as fractions. Let represent the number of voicemails.
Now, we can cross-multiply and solve for the unknown.
Example Question #11 : How To Find The Part From The Whole With Percentage
is what percentage of
Cannot be determined
To solve this we need to set up a proportion.
Now we cross multiply
Divide by 180.
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