Question

Danny just hired a new employee to work in your bakeshop, In one hour the employee burned 625 chocolate chip cookies. If this represented 25% of the day's production, how many cookies did you plan on producing that day?

Answer 1

The answer is 2500. Hope you get an A+ on whatever you're working on :)

Answer 2

Write an equation for the problem
25% of the production is 625. For an instance, p stands for the whole production of the day.
25% × p = 625
0.25 × p = 625
This is the equation

Solve for p and you'll find the production of the day
0.25 × p = 625
move 0.25 to the right side and it becomes the divisor
p = $\frac{625}{0.25}$
p = 2,500

The cookies they plan on producing are 2,500 cookies