Question

The ymca has collected 7875 dollars which is 63% of its goal,what is the amount of the goal? How much more money must the ymca collect?

Answer 1

You can always set up questions like this by saying `7875 of what is 63%', which you can put in equation form as:

\[\frac{7875}{x} = \frac{63}{100}\]

Then you can cross multiply to get x. Does that make sense?