Question

At lunch one day last year, we sold 80% ice cream. 30% were Chocolate. How many chocolate ice creams did we sell?


please i need help!

Answer 1

We probably need a little more context and complete sentences.

Answer 2

Are you sure you mean to say "we sold 80% ice cream"?

Answer 3

valpey i don't know that's what it said on my paper

Answer 4

Somewhere on your paper we should expect to see either context for how many items or ice creams there are to begin with or something. Or "80%" is a typo and we just mean 80 ice creams or something like that.

When we say 30% or "thirty percent" we mean "thirty per cent" (from the Latin "cent" = hundred) or 30 out of every 100.

Answer 5

If my guess is right that the paper means you sold 80 ice creams and 30% were chocolate, then the question can just be rephrased as "What is 30% of 80?"

Answer 6

oh alright i don't care i just need the answer really

Answer 7

Okay, we will get there. If 30 out of 100 are chocolate, then we can also see that 3 out of every 10 are chocolate. You can imagine that ice cream bars come in boxes of 10 with 3 chocolate and 7 of other flavors. If you sell 8 boxes worth of ice cream you will have sold 80 ice creams.

Answer 8

But if you sell 8 boxes, and each box has 3 chocolate ice creams, then how many chocolate ice creams did you sell?

Answer 9

i-dont-know--thats-why-i-am-asking-the-question

Answer 10

Wow hannah, you used a lot of space for such a short reply.

Answer 11

yeah.

Answer 12

nevermind forget

Answer 13

say u have x ice -creams

so, 80% of x sold..

and from which 30% were chocolate..

so u sold (30/100) * (80/100) * x = (24/100) * x... :-P