Question

PLEASE HELP ME I WILL MEDAL AND FAN!!
Jess observed that 60% of the people at a mall on a particular day shopped for clothes. If 2500 people at the mall did not shop for clothes that day, the number of people who shopped for clothes that day was ______.

Answer 1

3750

Answer 2

Can you explain??

Answer 3

yes wait...

Answer 4

\[\frac{2500}{0.4}=\frac{x}{0.6} \]
Solve the above for x.

Answer 5

2500/x = 40/100
solve for x, which is the total amount of people
once we find x, subtract 2500 from it, and we can find the number of people that shopped

Answer 6

who was right?? @robtobey i am confused

Answer 7

@pooja195 can you help?

Answer 8

anyone??

Answer 9

yep, 3750

Answer 10

ok.. thanks :)

Answer 11

x(0.4)=2500
x=6250 (total amount of people)

Answer 12

6250 x 0.6 = 3750 (people who shopped for clothes)

Answer 13

make sense?

Answer 14

yep :)

Answer 15

great