Question

Dana works at a flower shop. One day, she received a delivery of flowers,including 238 roses. Of all the flowers, 28% of them were flowers. Dana says that percent was 714 flowers.True or False?

Answer 1

Among the 331 flowers, there were 238 roses and 93 other flowers. That is 72% were roses and 28% were other flowers. The statement by Dana is false

Solution:

Given:

Number of roses delivered = 238

Percentage of other flowers = 28%

If the percentage of other flowers is 28 then the percentage of roses will be,

$100-28=72\%$

Assume that the total number of flowers as T. We can conclude that, 72% of total number of flowers corresponds to 238, that is

$72\% \times T=238\rightarrow\frac{72}{100}\times T=238\rightarrow T=\frac{238\times100}{72}$

$\Rightarrow T=330.55\approx331$

The total number of flowers = 331

Number of other flowers = 331-238=93