Question

Joe's Hot Dog Stand is only open for lunch. Of today's sales, 26% came from selling plain hot dogs. Since the hot dog stand made $45.50 from selling plain hot dogs, it made $ ______ in total sales for the day.

Answer 1

Given:
sales of plain hot dogs - 45.50
percentage of sales of plain hot dogs - 26% of total sales

We need to get the amount of the total sales. We compute this by dividing the sales of plain hot dogs by its corresponding percentage.

$45.50 ÷ 26% = $175

Total sales for the day is $175.