Question

Chad is eating a 50-gram chocolate bar which contains 30% cocoa. How many grams of cocoa are in the chocolate bar?

Answer 1

Answer: 15 grams

If he had 100 grams of candy bar, then 30% of that is 30 grams (since 30/100 = 30%). Cut this in half and we end up with 30/2 = 15.

Another way to find the answer is to multiply 50 and 0.30 which is the decimal form of 30%. So we have 50*0.30 = 15 which is the same answer.