Question

90% of the ABC Town has carpet. 10% of the carpet owners buys Great Cleaner. And 9.5% of the whole town buys Great Cleaner. What is the percentage of people who don't have carpet buys Great Cleaner?

Answer 1

how did you get that?

Answer 2

Let the total of ABC town is 100.

Answer 3

Then 90 of the ABC Town has carpet.

Answer 4

Let x be the number of people in the whole town
No. of ppl who have a carpet = 90% (x) = 0.9x
No of ppl has a carpet and use GC = 0.9x (10%) = 0.09x
No of ppl in the whole town use GC = 9.5% (x) = 0.095x
No. of ppl who don't have a carpet but use GC = 0.095x - 0.09x = 0.005x
% required = 0.005x / x (100%) = 0.5%

Answer 5

10% of the carpet owners buys Great Cleaner which means 9 of the carpet owners.

Answer 6

Okay Callisto answered it well.

Answer 7

great...thanks so much for your response. I got the same answer but did it a different way :s

Answer 8

BUt taking 100 simplifies calculation.

Answer 9

Not as good as FoolForMath's answer.

Answer 10

lol thanks but she is just being modest :)