Question

Anastasia is grocery shopping with her father and wonders how much shopping is left to fo. "We already have 60% of the items on our list," her father says. Anastasia sees 12 items in the cart. How many grocery items are on the list?"

Answer 1

Answer: 20

Step-by-step explanation:

Given : The number of grocery items of list they already have= 12

The percentage of grocery items they have now = 60%

Which can also be written as 0.60

Let x be the total grocery items in the list , then we have the following equation :-

$0.60x=12$

Divide 0.60 both sides , we get

$x=\dfrac{12}{0.6}=20$

Hence, the number of grocery items are on the list =20

Answer 2

The answer is 20.  The way I do it is divide 12 by 6 then multiply it by 10 (it works as long as the denominator is ten).