In a basket of apples, 12% of them are rotten and 66 are in good condition. Find the total number of apples in the basket. Please make it understandable.

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SBF · Answer 1 · 2020-07-24T01:03:54+0000

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Step-by-step explanation:

12% of the apples are rotten so 88% are in good condition (note how 12% + 88% = 100%)

Let's say that x is the amount of total apples. Taking 88% of x will get us 66 as there are 66 good apples, so,

0.88*x = 66

To figure out x, we divide both sides by 0.88 which undoes the multiplication

0.88x = 66

0.88x/0.88 = 66/0.88

x = 66/0.88

x = 75

There are 75 total apples. We can check this by taking 88% of this to get

0.88*x = 0.88*75 = 66

and we get 66 apples as expected.