Question

Emily just hired a new employee to work in your bakeshop. In one hour the employee burned 650 chocolate chip cookies. If this represented 13% of the day’s production, how many cookies did you plan on producing that day?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

5000 Cookies

Explanation:

Set up the problem this way:

Let X = number of cookies produced for the day.

13% of X cookies = 650.

or .13 X = 650

Solve for X by dividing 650 by .13.

X = 5000

Check!

5000 x 13 % (or .13) = 650.