Question

Marshall's Theater Company claims that of its 2,937 costumes in inventory, 972 are just old used clothes, while the rest are collector's items. What percent of total inventory is collector's items?

Answer 1

In order to calculate the percent of items that are collector's items, let's first find the amount of collector's items by subtracting the total number of items by the number of old used clothes:

`2937-972=1965`

Now, to find the percent from the total, let's divide this amount we calculated by the total number of items:

`(1965)/(2937)=0.669=66.9\text{\%}`

Therefore the percent of items that are collector's items is 66.9%.