Question

George has a small coin collection. He has collected 16 gold coins, 28 silver coins, 32 copper coins, and 4 bronze coins. At a flea market, George sells 15% of his coins. Find the number of coins he sold.

Answer 1

I will medal and fan!!

Answer 2

@CGGURUMANJUNATH

Answer 3

(number of coins sold)/(total number of coins) X 100

Answer 4

so how can I do that

Answer 5

oops, solve for number of coins sold...

what i wrote is the percentage of coins sold, but you already know that. is we convert the percent to a number (decimal), what would it be?

Answer 6

0.15?? @pgpilot326

Answer 7

yep

so (number of coins sold)/(total number of coins) = .15

how many total coins were there?

Answer 8

16+28+32+4=2852

Answer 9

? did you multiply?

Answer 10

No I added all that

Answer 11

and that's what you got?

Answer 12

yes...

Answer 13

16 + 4 + 32 + 28 = (16+4) + (32+28) = 20 + 60 =?

Answer 14

what??? tooo confusing

Answer 15

if you have no sense that adding 4 numbers, all less than 100 must be less than 2852 then you should learn how to add before doing percents...

Answer 16

how did you add those numbers? what is 16 + 28?

Answer 17

Just can u tell me the answer I gotta go now

Answer 18

nope

Answer 19

i'm not here to give out answers unless you are here to pay me

Answer 20

you here to pay me? each answer, $25

Answer 21

what