Question

Athena and George are married.

On their wedding day,120 of the guests were athenas friends or family. This was 60%.
How many guests were there all together?

Answer 1

You will set this equation up as part over whole equals percent over 100 so you then put 120/x=60/100 now you cross multiply and get 120 times 100=60x now you have 12000=60x divide both sides by 60 to get your answer of x=200

Answer 2

The relevant information here is thatthe 120 guests were 60% of total guests.

we can write it like this:

120=60%x

changing the percent into fraction:

120=
`(60)/(100)x`


`120=(6)/(10)x`

multiplying everything by 10:

1200=6x

and dividing by 6:

200=x

so there were 200 guests in total