Question

Esmerelda bought a bag of jelly beans. There were 24 green jelly beans, which made up 8%, percent of all the jelly beans in the bag.

How many jelly beans were in the bag?

Answer 1

If you would like to know how many jelly beans were in the bag, you can calculate this using the following steps:

x ... the number of jelly beans in the bag
8% of x is 24 green jelly beans
8% of x = 24
8% * x = 24
8/100 * x = 24 /*100/8
x = 24 * 100 / 8
x = 300 jelly beans

Result: 300 jelly beans were in the bag.

Answer 2

300 jelly beans. To find out how many jelly beans there were in the bag, set it up as a proportion. 24 over x (24/x) and 8 over 100 (8/100) Multiply 24 and 100. 24*100=2400. Afterwards divide 2400 by 8. 2400/8=300. The answer is that there were 300 jelly beans in the bag.