A local coffee shop serves 2/9 as many customers as a shop run by a national coffee chain. The shop run by the chain serves 502

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Paul [167]

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A local coffee shop serves 2/9 as many customers as a shop run by a national coffee chain. The shop run by the chain serves 502

customers day. About how many customers does the local shop serve in a day

Mathematics

2 answers:

Inessa [10] · Answer 1 · 2022-07-10T11:54:30+03:00

Answer:

about 112 customers

Step-by-step explanation:

we know that

To find out how many customers does the local shop serve in a day, multiply the fraction 2/9 by the number of customers that the shop run serve in a day

Let

x ----> the number of customers that the shop run serve in a day

y ----> the number of customers that the local shop serve in a day

$y=\frac{2}{9}x$

we have

x=502

substitute the value of x in the equation

$y=\frac{2}{9}(502)$

$y=111.6$

Round up

so

about 112 customers

JulsSmile [24] · Answer 2 · 2022-07-10T13:08:42+03:00

The local shop serves about 112 customers in a day

<h3>Further explanation</h3>

Order of Operations in Mathematics follow this following rule :

Parentheses
Exponents
Multiplication and Division
Addition and Subtraction

This rule is known as the PEMDAS method.

In working on a mathematical problem, we first calculate operation that is in parentheses, follow by exponentiation, then multiplication or division, and finally addition or subtraction.

Let us tackle the problem.

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