Question

Samuel has a collection of toy cars. His favorites are the 27 red ones which make up 60%, percent of his collection. How many toy cars does Samuel have?

Answer 1

Problema Solution

Samuel has a collection of toy cars. His favorites are the 27 red ones, which make up 60% of his collection. How many toy cars does Samuel have?

Answer provided by our tutors

let x = the number of toy cars that Samuel has

60% of x are 27 

0.60*x = 27

by solving we find

x = 45 cars