Question

You can’t decide which estate agent to use to sell your home, so you research the number of properties each estate agent has sold over the last year. Estate Agent Number of houses Number of houses listed for sale (January sold (January to December) to December) A 150 75 B 130 70 C 145 75 You want to choose the estate agent that sold the highest percentage of the houses it had listed for sale. Which estate agent would you choose? Give a reason for your answer.

Answer 1

B. 130 70

Explanation:

Agent B sold the highest number (53.85% ) of houses given the number of listed houses.

Find the percentage of houses each agent sold.

For A

x/100 * 150 = 75

cross multiply and find x, that would be 50%

For B

x/100 * 130 = 70

cross multiply and find x, that would be 53.85%

for C

x/100 *145 = 75

cross multiply and find x, that would be 51.72%