Question

A store sold 550 video games in the month of December. if this made up 12.5 % of its yearly video game sale, about how many video games did the store sell all year?

Answer 1

You just need to do cross multiplication.
If 550 video games equals 12.5%, then 100% equals...
100×550÷12.5=4400 is the correct answer.

Answer 2

Let, the amount of video games for whole year = x

Then it would be: x*0.125 = 550

x = 550/0.125 = 4400

so, your answer is 4400