Question

The baseball team ordered 140 T-shirts to sell at the school fair. Of those T-shirts, 50% are white, 20% are blue, 15% are green, 10% are red, and 5% are black. How many black T-shirts did the baseball team order? How many red T-shirts?

Answer 1

Answer:

The team ordered 7 black T-shirts.

The team ordered 14 red T-shirts.

Step-by-step explanation:

The team ordered 140 T-shirts.

How many black T-shirts did the baseball team order?

Of those, 5% are black.

0.05*140 = 7

The team ordered 7 black T-shirts.

How many red T-shirts?

Of those, 10% are red.

0.1*140 = 14

The team ordered 14 red T-shirts.