Question

Border's Bookstore ordered 800 art books. On verifying the order, only 160 books were actually received. The percent of the order missing was:

Answer 1

How do you think we should do it?

Answer 2

I suggest we begin by finding out how many books are missing

Answer 3

the answer i got for this was 6.4

Answer 4

just not sure if it was right

Answer 5

thats definetly not right

Answer 6

not being mean but does 6.4 make sense as an answer?

Answer 7

there are 640 books missing so 640/100 is 6.4%

Answer 8

yes that true, but we are looking for the percentage of books missing from the total order

Answer 9

160/800=books that showed up
100-books that showed up= books missing

Answer 10

99.8

Answer 11

ok i'm sorry i wasn't very clear it's 80%