Question

Decide whether the following situation is looking for the percent, the part, or the whole:

Answer 1

The 14 compact cars sold by a dealer on Monday was 56% of the cars sold that day.

Situation is looking for a percent of compact car that is 56 or part that is 14 compact car out of whole.

Solution:

Given that  

14 compact cars sold by a dealer on Monday was 56% of the cars sold that day.

Need to decide whether the following situation is looking for the percent, the part, or the whole.

From given information ,

The part that is 14 compact cars out of all cars are sold on the day.

Also 14 compact car are 56% of the car sold on that day.

So clearly situation is looking for a percent of compact car that is 56 or part that is 14 compact car out of whole.