Please Help: Trader Joe's sold 7709 bags of tortilla chips recently....

[karenbryant33]

Trader Joe's sold 7709 bags of tortilla chips recently. If 6142 of these bags were fat free, find the percent that were fat free. Round your answer to the nearest percent.

7709/6142= 80 %

 

[Deleted member 4993]

Trader Joe's sold 7709 bags of tortilla chips recently. If 6142 of these bags were fat free, find the percent that were fat free. Round your answer to the nearest percent.

let's do a similar but different problem:

Trader Joe's sold 6000 bags of tortilla chips recently. If 4000 of these bags were fat free, find the percent that were fat free. Round your answer to the nearest percent.

% fat-free bag = (Number of fat-free bags)/(Total number of bags) * 100 % = 4000/6000 * 100% = 0.6667 * 100% = 66.67% = 67%

Now follow the exact same method....

 

[stapel]

Trader Joe's sold 7709 bags of tortilla chips recently. If 6142 of these bags were fat free, find the percent that were fat free. Round your answer to the nearest percent.

7709/6142= 80 %

How are you getting that one number, after division by a smaller number, is giving you a value of less than? :shock:

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