Question

timmy just hired a new employee to work in your bakeshop. In one hour the employee burned 55 chocolate chip cookies. if this represented 15% of the days production, how many cookies did you plan on producing that day?

Answer 1

2500
Explanation:
You know that the new employee burned
625
chocolate chips in one hour and that this many chocolate chips represented
25
%
of that day's production.
As you know, percentages are used to express fractions that have
100
as their denominator. In this case, you can say that
25
%
=
25
100
This means that for every
100
chocolate chips baked that day,
25
were burned by the new employee. You can simplify this ratio to get
25
100
=
1
4
→
one chip burned for every four chips baked