Problema Solution
A) You mix 20 chocolate covered raisins with 35 peanuts. What percent of your mix is chocolate covered raisins?
B) A box contains 26 pens and pencils. If x% of the mix is pencils, how many pencils are in the box?
C) You mix x orange jelly beans with 25 black jelly beans. What percent of your mix is orange jelly beans? Thanks for your help!
Answer provided by our tutors
A) 20/(20 + 35) = 0,3636 or 36.36% chocolate covered raisins
B) (x/100)*26 pencils (considering the percent is not given as a decimal)
C) (x/(x + 25))*100 percents is orange jelly beans