Question

The Music Department is a department store sold 12 jazz CD’s last month.Jazz sales during that month made up 2% of the music departments total sales.Determine the number of CD’s that the store sold during that month?

Answer 1

The answer is 38 CD's. Since the percent is of 100, 2% of 100 would be 50. Then, twelve subtracted from 50 determined that 38 CD's were sold during last month.