Question

You make 72 cookies for a bake sale. This is 20% of the cookies at the bake sale. How many cookies are at the bake sale?

Answer 1

Is it 360?

Answer 2

Set up a proportion: 72=.2
multiply both sides by 5 to get 1 or 100% on the right hand side
72*5 = 360

Answer 3

That's what i got

Answer 4

That's how I did it, also by doing,\[72 \div .20 = 360\]

Answer 5

Thanks! :D

Answer 6

That's right.