Question

grampa baked cookies twenty cookies are oatmeal raisin. the oatmeal raisin represent 5/8 of all the cookies. how many did grampa make

Answer 1

can i get an answer

Answer 2

let x=total#of cookies
we know that 5/8 of this number is 20
the word "of" in mathematics means "times", so we have\[\frac58x=20\]solving for x will give the total number of cookies

Answer 3

ok say the out is 60% of in and the in is 100 what do i do