Question

When a nursery owner orders plants from the distributor, 92% of the plants arrive alive. If the nursery owner wants their inventory of a particular plant to be 540 living plants, how many plants should the owner order?

Answer 1

You must make a $\frac{part}{whole}$ proportion.

92% is part of 100%

540 would need to be the 92% of the plant bought. That means 540 is the part and the whole would be the unknown (let's make this x)

Set up your proportion like so...

$\frac{540}{x} =\frac{92}{100}$

Cross multiply...

92x = 540 * 100

92x = 54000

Isolate x by dividing 92 to both sides...

92x/92 = 54000/92

x = 586.9565

Since you can't buy a decimal of a plant you will have to round this number up to the next whole number...

587

To have 540 of the plants arrive alive the nursery owner must order 587 plants

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